Health Innovation Leeds

✨ It's the final day of your health innovation advent calendar, which throughout December has offered daily insights into Leeds’ world-renowned research and innovation ecosystem. Watch day 24, which celebrates the city as top UK health innovation hub, and invites you to be part of it in 2025… ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ This month we shared just a handful of highlights about Leeds: 🌍 It’s the UK’s third largest city and economically the fastest growing 🏅 The city was ranked this year as a top UK health innovation location which is already competing internationally as a vibrant healthtech hub 🤝 Leeds welcomes and supports businesses to thrive and grow, as a top-performing city for scale-ups and a top city for healthtech start-up support 🔬 It’s a national magnet for health and care research and innovation funding, with globally-leading research 💡 The city is a market leader in medtech, digital health, software development, data analytics and AI 💰 Leeds is at the heart of West Yorkshire, a £67 billion economy at the heart of the UK - one of the strongest regional economies outside of London and larger than seven EU countries. 📍 The region is a leading location for industry and healthtech providers to invest, expand and trial and scale solutions (with the NHS regional headquarters here in Leeds). ❗ And there’s so much more to discover. So if you do one thing in 2025: 🌟 Find out more about the opportunities Leeds offers – whether you’re an innovator, business, investor or taking your next career step, Leeds’ internationally-renowned ecosystem can help you succeed. ➡️ Visit Health Innovation Leeds to explore the city’s ecosystem and discover more about partners and industry: https://lnkd.in/eEqXW9XH ➡️ Read the Health Innovation Leeds brochure: https://lnkd.in/e7emt9Vh ➡️ Download ‘Pursuing Excellence’, an independent report benchmarking Leeds against similar UK and international cities, and revealing its market-leading strengths: https://lnkd.in/eDJ5Zetk

✨ Leeds is the third largest and economically fastest growing city in the UK. On day 23 of your health innovation advent calendar, hear how local leaders are united in a shared ambition to make Leeds the best place in which to live and work... ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ The Best City Ambition is Leeds City Council's overall vision for the future of Leeds. At its heart is a mission to tackle poverty and inequality and improve quality of life for everyone who calls Leeds home. Here, the Council is working with partners and communities to achieve inclusive economic growth and accelerate cross-sector innovation and citywide digital transformation... 🤝 Aligning plans and priorities City leaders share a real commitment to collaborate and align priorities for the greater good of the city and its people: ✨ The Health and Wellbeing Strategy aims to break the link between poverty and poor health, identifying 12 priorities – from improving housing, to maximising the benefits of world-leading research and technology. You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/eKJfjeCG ✨ And The Healthy Leeds Plan outlines how the health and care system will transform over the next five years to improve health outcomes for local people: https://lnkd.in/e5vhqxgZ 📊 Digital and data powerhouse: The richness of data combined with innovative digital health technologies and strong partnership working are cornerstones of transforming health and care in Leeds. ✨ Positioning Leeds as a national exemplar, the depth, pace and scale at which the Leeds Office of Data Analytics (ODA) collects, analyses and interprets data to help local public services transform people’s health and wellbeing is ground-breaking: https://lnkd.in/eTWDaeee ✨ The Leeds Data Model is a comprehensive and quickly evolving world-class population health management platform. Considered a national exemplar, it unites the city’s health and care services and will be linking these data sets with those in children’s services and wider local authority data, such as transport, air quality and housing.  Partners are analysing the data through the lens of the city’s Healthy Leeds Plan, and are using this to inform research and redesign healthcare around local people’s needs. (Read more: https://lnkd.in/estQbY5g) ✨ Leeds City Council's 100% Digital is one of the largest and best digital inclusion programmes in the country. Its award-winning work supports the most digitally excluded people spanning 200 settings across the city. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ejRRhjMu Discover Leeds' ambitious plans and how you can be part of the city's future: https://lnkd.in/eZ2Whvf6 Dr Mariana Pexton, Richard Irvine, Fiona Bolam, Tim Ryley, Tony Cooke

✨ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, so why not watch to open day 22 of your health innovation advent calendar... ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ This year, Leeds was voted best place to live in the North of England [Sunday Times]. ✨ At the heart of West Yorkshire, Leeds is culturally diverse, richly creative and perfectly located. It offers easy access to the famously stunning countryside that is Yorkshire, the largest county in the UK spanning 2.9 million acres.  ✨ The city welcomes and supports businesses to thrive and grow. Its population diversity reflects that of the UK, making it the ideal place to can start small, trial new ideas and scale fast. ✨ With a collective ambition to be the best city in the UK in which to live and work, Leeds is a city working in partnership to: ✳️ accelerate health innovation ✳️ harness research excellence ✳️ pioneer health technologies ✳️ welcome and support businesses ✳️ power economic growth ✳️ welcome and foster talent ✳️ develop new cultures and ways of working, and ✳️ include everyone So, whether you’re an innovator, business, investor or taking your next career step, Leeds’ internationally-renowned ecosystem can help you succeed. Read our brochure to find out more: https://lnkd.in/e7emt9Vh

✨ We're counting down to Christmas with a new virtual door to open each day. Watch to open day 21 and discover the city's thriving healthtech scene... ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ Leeds’ health innovation industry sector and supporting infrastructure are market-leading. Here, the healthtech sector is thriving, helping position the city at the forefront of healthcare innovation. An independent report published this year found that Leeds ranks 3rd internationally as a healthtech hub. ✨ With a growing investment landscape, the city welcomes businesses looking to locate in Leeds, whether individual entrepreneurs or large corporates, offering them wide-ranging support. ✨ Leeds is a top city for healthtech start up support, and the UK's top-performing city for business scale-ups. ✨ As well as a high concentration of healthtech employees, the city has a strong and diverse talent pool and pipeline - including 75,000 students, many of whom are among the region’s 17,000 STEM graduates each year. ✨ With a strong focus on economic growth that benefits all, Leeds aims to create a diverse entrepreneurial community that will help fulfil its inclusive growth ambition (read more about the city's Inclusive Growth Strategy: https://lnkd.in/eeXyerEa). So, whether you’re an innovator, business, investor or taking your next career step, Leeds’ internationally-renowned ecosystem can help you succeed. Read our brochure to find out more: https://lnkd.in/e7emt9Vh

We launched Health Innovation Leeds in January 2024 to shine a light on the market-leading developments happening here in our city. As the year draws to a close we say thank you to everyone from across our local, national and international communities for your fantastic support and interest throughout 2024.  Along with our festive wishes, our final Health Innovation Highlights of the year celebrates the groundbreaking accomplishments of our partners and Leeds’ internationally-renowned health innovation ecosystem. To wrap up another busy and successful year for health innovation in Leeds, this edition shares yet more pioneering advancements in health and care – from cool health innovations to novel ways to tackle obesity, and life-saving cancer research and treatment. ✨ Wishing our partners and health innovation community a merry Christmas and happy new year. ✨ Phil Wood, Kate Lodge, Ruth Coulthard, Prof Paul Gately, Leeds Health and Care Partnership, Steph Oliver-Beech, Thomas Hutchinson,

✨ Not only is Leeds regional headquarters to the NHS, the city’s specialist clinical research facilities are international centres of excellence. On day 20 of your health innovation advent calendar we showcase an organisation transforming health and care through world-leading research and innovation... ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT), one of the UK’s largest, is internationally renowned for research and innovation which drives advances in clinical science and health technologies. ✨ As a Centre of Excellence, the Trust’s enviable track record of working with partners delivers internationally acclaimed, world-leading advancements in healthcare. It has research strengths in: 🌟 musculoskeletal disease 🌟 cardiovascular disease 🌟 cancer 🌟 medical/surgical technology 🌟 infectious disease & antimicrobial resistance 🌟 real world data 🌟 artificial intelligence 🌟 service digitisation ✨ Leeds has an outstanding outstanding £40m NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) infrastructure, including: 🔬 The NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), hosted by LTHT. Focusing on musculoskeletal disease, cardiometabolic disease, surgical technologies, haematology, pathology and antimicrobial resistance, the BRC transforms cutting edge medical research into innovative improvements in healthcare. 🔬 The NIHR Leeds Clinical Research Facility (CRF) - hosted by LTHT, the CRF works with industry, research councils and charities, to run more than 100 early-stage clinical trials a year to pioneer new treatments. 🔬 The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre: a centre of expertise that focuses on clinical areas of high morbidity and unmet need for NHS patients. ✨ Among its comprehensive research and innovation portfolio, the Trust hosts one of the world’s first fully digital pathology labs, a pioneering innovation space for industry and renowned biomedical and clinical research facilities. What's more... ✨ LTHT's Innovation Pop Up is a pioneering approach, unmatched in the North of England, connecting industry innovators with the NHS. Established in 2021, the Pop Up provides a front door for innovators to collaborate within the hospital setting. Companies can connect and work together with the Trust’s clinicians and innovation team to transform the latest advances in science, research and technology into real world solutions: https://lnkd.in/egj_evyc ➡️ Find out more about Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: https://lnkd.in/ewxTUkY8 ➡️ Learn about plans for a new adults’ hospital, a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital, and one of the UK’s largest single site maternity and neonatal centre: https://lnkd.in/ePX4SZZn Phil Wood, Ai Lyn Tan, Chris Herbert, Richard Evans, Adedamola Bello-Esop, David Jayne, Research & Innovation Department at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, National Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC), Philip Conaghan, Steve Rose, Kate Lodge, Ruth Coulthard

⬇️📽️ Hear why Leeds HomeFirst programme is a national exemplar in its groundbreaking approach to transforming intermediate care. You can also read our recent spotlight feature, in which Programme Director, Megan Rowlands, explains how HomeFirst has created a ‘blueprint’ for systemwide change, supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our communities: https://lnkd.in/ehbN94H7

✨ One of the strengths of Leeds health and care research and innovation ecosystem is its place at the heart of a fantastic and thriving region. Day 19 of your health innovation advent calendar spotlights the organisation working in partnership to drive health and wealth for everyone in West Yorkshire. ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ West Yorkshire Combined Authority, chaired by Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, brings together the local authorities of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield and Leeds. Working collaboratively across this amazing region, the Authority develops and delivers policies, programmes and services for the people of West Yorkshire, and provides a single point of access to a wide range of support for investors and for businesses. ⁉️ Did you know that West Yorkshire is a £67bn economy at the heart of the UK? ✨ West Yorkshire is the leading location for healthtech providers to trial and scale a solution in the NHS (and with the NHS regional HQ in Leeds, the region is known as the home of the NHS). ✨ Leeds is home to more than half of all regional healthtech businesses in West Yorkshire, and the region’s top investment raising companies. In the past 5 years, regional investment growth in healthtech businesses has skyrocketed from £2m to £30m. ✨ Fuelling further growth for the region, a £160m West Yorkshire Healthtech and Digital Tech Investment Zone brings together universities, businesses and hospitals to deliver cutting-edge research and develop innovative new health and care technologies, for use in the UK and world-wide. (Read more: https://lnkd.in/eFxjDKps) ✨ As home to NHS England’s headquarters and Europe’s largest teaching hospital, West Yorkshire is recognised as a global leader in health innovation, and a prime location to locate, invest and expand. ➡️ Find out more about our region and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority: https://lnkd.in/ga-pUjC Felix Kumi-Ampofo, Steph Oliver-Beech, Thomas Hutchinson, Jane Green, Jennie Holdstock, Richard Paxman OBE, Kate Lodge, Invest West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Business and Skills, Ruth Coulthard

✨ Behind door 18 of our health innovation advent calendar is an organisation whose research focusing on mental health, learning disabilities and neurodiversity is changing lives across the UK.    ✨  ✨  ✨  ✨    Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds.    Through research, the trust is developing services and influencing transformation across the sector by:    ✨ developing a skilled research workforce,  ✨ creating a culture of research being core business,  ✨ engaging a network of key stakeholders,  ✨ influencing national and regional agendas, and  ✨ effectively sharing the outputs and impacts of their research.    ➡️ Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ekJNUpmY    Dr SARA MUNRO, Oliver Tipper, Kate Lodge, Ruth Coulthard 

🌟 Call for Abstracts: LTHT R&I Conference 2025! 🌟 We’re excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for the upcoming LTHT R&I Conference on 10 July 2025! This event will bring together clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals to showcase groundbreaking research, innovation, and advancements in patient care within the NHS. 📅 Key Dates: 🗓️ Call for Abstracts Opens: 20 December 2024 🗓️ Abstract Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025 – 12:00 PM 💡 We welcome submissions from all staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on topics such as: 🔬 Innovative treatments and technologies 📈 Improving patient outcomes and experience 💻 Digital transformation in healthcare 🤝 Patient-centred care and clinical research 🚀 Advancing health research delivery 📌 Don’t miss your opportunity to share your work with peers 🖋️ For more information on the guidelines and how to submit ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eptUUAyb Spread the word and tag your colleagues! 📢 #NHSResearch #Innovation #R&IConference2025 #PatientCare