Leeds Academic Health Partnership

News and events

Vision 2021 – The Bridge: crossing the chasm between research and practice

Tue 9 October 2018 09:45 – 16:00
Yorkshire and Humber to launch health and care partnerships to improve patient care

A new partnership to provide health and care staff with better and faster access to vital information about the person in their care is being established across the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Leeds Academic Health Partnership joins city team on top US programme to boost regional innovation and growth

Leeds Academic Health Partnership is part of a select Leeds City Region team which has successfully bid for a place on a prestigious leadership programme run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s top universities.
New film outlines our strategy for health and care innovation in Leeds
Yorkshire & Humber region invited to bid for Exemplar status

A collaboration of NHS, care and local government organisations in Yorkshire and Humber has been invited by NHS England to bid for Local Care Integrated Record Exemplar (LHCRE) status.

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Our work

Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research

Yorkshire Cancer Research is investing at least £100 million to reduce the number of cancer deaths across the region by 2,000 a year by 2025.
Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health

Personalised medicine is about moving away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to the treatment and care of people with a particular condition.
Leeds Health and Care Academy

The involvement of our universities will position the Academy at the forefront of digitally-enabled learning, with a curriculum based on world-leading evidence and research.

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Blog

Inclusive growth – turning rhetoric into reality

Inclusive economic growth: if it was easy, every city would have cracked it. In July, Leeds City Council launched its inclusive growth strategy supported by ‘12 big ideas’. Is the strategy achievable, who is ultimately responsible for its success and what does an academic health partnership have to do with it?
Here, Leeds City Council’s Chief Officer for Economic Development (and a new member of the Leeds Academic Health Partnership’s operations group) Eve Roodhouse, offers food for thought.
Unravelling the complexity in innovation

With medical, technological and scientific discoveries advancing at speed, and with big data – which we know ‘saves lives’ – accumulating as never before, what are the challenges in applying all this to driving innovation to transform our health and care systems? Biochemistry undergraduate Sophie Elvidge shares her reflections and insights after spending a year’s placement working hard at Leeds Academic Health Partnership.
In love with the future: NHS 2088

As the NHS turns 70 this month, our Chief Operating Officer Jo-Anne Wass considers the exponential acceleration in medical technology innovation, what its impact might be on health and care services in another 70 years, and the importance of having a vision to help us get there.
Teaming ahead

What conditions are fundamental to successful innovation? How can organisations, cities and even whole nations tackle seemingly insurmountable, complex challenges? Dr Claire Kenwood, Medical Director at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, considers the importance of “teaming”, what it means and how it’s working in Leeds.
All in the mind?

As mental health awareness week gets underway, Danielle Thornton-Lee considers the growing concerns about mental ill health in children and young people. Is it becoming more prevalent, if so what are the causes and how do we know it’s not simply all in the mind?