Partners aim to boost Leeds City Region healthcare
Senior leaders from the health technology industry, the regional enterprise partnership, the NHS, local authorities and five universities have formed a partnership to accelerate health technology innovation for the Leeds City Region.
Partners have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to drive new approaches to improving patient and population health and care through better and faster healthcare technology innovation. The move also aims to radically speed up the region’s productivity and economic growth in the sector, which is seeing an unprecedented rise across the UK and globally.
University of Leeds professor of mechanical engineering John Fisher, who led the production of the Leeds City Region science and innovation audit, said: “This signals an important step towards embracing the opportunities and realising the ambitions set out in the government’s Industrial Strategy.
“Each partner will play their part in helping to address and overcome the barriers to innovation. By working together in a new, focused and coordinated way, we will accelerate radical improvements in patient care, health service efficiency and drive economic growth and productivity across the region and the UK.”
Picture: Representing Leeds City Region health technology MoU partners are David McBeth from University of York, Rob Webster from West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, Liam Sutton from University of Bradford, Liz Towns-Andrews from University of Huddersfield, Peter Slee from Leeds Beckett University, Sir Alan Langlands from University of Leeds, Roger Marsh of Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership and Peter Ellingworth of Association of British HealthTech Industries.
Published on page 20 of the September 2019 issue of RAD Magazine.
