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DataLoch brings together routine data collected as part of people’s day-to-day interactions with health and social care services. NHS Lothian is the lead Data Controller of all data hosted by DataLoch. Protecting the individual identities of all those in the data is the DataLoch team’s most important priority.

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Public perspectives: exploring the use of Large Language Models for de-identifying free-text 02/07/2026

Our STAR-TRE project aims to develop a toolkit to support secure research access to de-identified free-text data through Trusted Research Environments. As a critical foundation of this project, Ipsos have delivered a comprehensive report detailing public views on the possible use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify privacy risks in free-text.

Public perspectives: exploring the use of Large Language Models for de-identifying free-text 02/07/2026

STAR-TRE: developing a trustworthy path for researcher access to medical notes 19/02/2026

Our Natural Language Programme Lead Arlene Casey is leading a 12-month project that explores the use of new technologies to reliably de-identify free-text notes from health, education, and other administrative systems. The goal is to develop a toolkit that would allow information from free-text notes to be made safely available for cutting-edge research.