"Following the HFEA’s directive, we are required to retain patient records for a minimum of 30 years. We also need to ensure that this information is kept secure, and can be easily accessed many years down the line when, for example, we need to inform someone about who a child’s …

"Meeting the expectations of the funding body that provides nearly a third of our research funding was something we took very seriously. Deploying a service to our researchers that is easy for them to use and that gives us a scalable platform for future expansion underpinned the whole project."