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Leeds launches groundbreaking study to spot risks of disease

A groundbreaking study has launched in Leeds to better understand how proteins in people’s blood can help identify the risk of disease and enable health professionals to decide on the right care to prevent it.
Health and care explained: how the system works and how it is changing – Leeds

Thursday 28 February 2019, 9.00am-5.00pm
Technology for community nurses

19 March 2019 9:30am – 4:30pm
Mobile lung health checks launched in Leeds

People at high risk of developing lung disease will have the chance to take part in a pioneering project funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research.
North receives £10m government investment for AI and digital pathology

Leeds researchers have been awarded a £10.1m investment from UK Research and Innovation to expand a digital pathology and artificial intelligence programme across the North of England.

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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

Caring about life’s end

This month in Leeds, around 50 health and care professionals will take precious time out of their busy schedules to attend an important event. They have agreed to come together to help transform our approach to caring for people across the city who are nearing the end of their lives. The Leeds Palliative Care Network (LPCN) is leading the case for change in Leeds. Palliative care specialists Professor Mike Bennett and Dr Mike Stockton are working with them and summarise here what needs to be considered.
Healthy lives need healthy homes

The link between decent homes and good health was spotted long ago. Despite the pace of change accelerating around the world today, making the housing-health link remains as vital as ever. Tony Cooke, Chief Officer, Health Partnerships, Leeds City Council and Chief Operating Officer at Leeds Academic Health Partnership, considers the issue and how it is being addressed through partnership working in Leeds.
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.