About Qurae
Engage our team, don't recruit your own
Qurae is a University of Nottingham spinout, founded by Phil Quinlan and Andy Rae — two directors with 15+ years inside the NHS and academia, and a strong international research network. We want to help connect the data in your organisation to enable opportunity with control.
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Years inside the NHS and academia
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Directors. No layers, no handoffs.
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International professional research network, 15 years in the making
Meet the Directors
Phil Quinlan
Director
Phil has spent his career turning research ambition into infrastructure that actually ships. He's a Professor at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Director of Digital Health Research at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Andy Rae
Director
Andy builds the software that turns policy into practice. He's a Senior Software Engineer at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Head of Research Software at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
View LinkedInTogether, they're recognised leaders in the complexity of data sovereignty, data standards, and how to put data to work safely at scale — built from years inside the University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, on programmes with Health Data Research UK, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and Data and Analytics Research Environments UK.
This isn't theoretical. Bunny, their open-source software, is already running inside the NHS England Secure Data Environment Programme — helping standardise and adopt new platforms in collaboration with industry and academic developers, and delivering a step change in capability at Nottingham University Hospitals. It's deployed, in production, inside one of the most secure environments in the NHS.
That know-how is already showing results. The software-enabled data pipelines Phil and Andy have built have helped Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust become part of multiple real-world evidence studies, turning data into insight at a pace and scale that manual processes couldn't match.
Why It Matters
A network you can't buy
When you work with Qurae, you don't just get two directors — you get a pathway into one of the UK's leading health data networks, built over 15+ years across academia, the NHS and industry. We're seeking strong, lasting partnerships with organisations who share our vision for what data can do, and who want to move first rather than explain later why they didn't.
Let's talk about working together
Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you how we fit.