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It’s all about new ideas, creative thinking and transformational ways of working.
It’s cutting edge, challenging and brave.
It might involve risk but can offer great and far reaching benefits for Leeds’ people.
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Around the World
Experts are working hard to innovate - to find new, long-term ways to improve people’s health and care.
Leeds is AMAZING It’s the UK’s third largest and economically one of the UK’s fastest growing cities.
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Is one of the UK’s leading innovation hubs
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Has a population of nearly 800,000.
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Is one of the top UK cities for starting a business
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Is ranked best UK city for quality of life
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Is ranked 16th globally for growth in venture capital investment
Its academic community is World class
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Over 62,000 students from 151 countries
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World-class academic community delivering excellence in health innovation and research
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One of the UK’s largest further education colleges
No other city our size
has its health and care system organised in such a straightforward way.
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Single commissioning voice
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1 Local authority
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3 NHS Trusts
But these strengths had to be brought together to realise the very best benefits for Leeds citizens.
Here in Leeds, we take an innovative approach.
With a bold ambition
to be the best city for health and wellbeing, the city’s most senior leaders decided that Leeds needed a strong and broad partnership to help do just that.
So they set up the
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ThinkingBIG
We consider all aspects of life that influence local people’s health.
That means we also help attract investment into Leeds which improves skills, jobs and income for people in all our communities.
It’s our size and scope that makes our partnership different.
We are one of the largest of our kind in the UK.
We bring together academia, health, social care and some charity sector organisations to work in partnership to serve our city.
Our founding partners are
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Our associate member
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Our affiliate members
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Acting differently
At the heart of this big partnership is our small team, working as a conduit between our partners.
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In serving the city, our job is to find experts in Leeds and bring them together to help solve some of the city’s hardest health challenges.
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There is no blueprint for how to do this.
Our city’s experts need opportunities to forge new collaborations, to think and plan ‘outside of the box’, and to find solutions which transform our world long-term.
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We provide those opportunities
Realisingideas
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We help turn groundbreaking ideas into life-changing realities, creating new ways to transform local people’s health and wellbeing.
We do this by
Providing a unique route to advice, challenge, approval and support from the city’s senior leaders and influencers
Brokering resource and expertise to ignite and support exclusive projects
Providing ongoing management and practical business support to incubate projects as they emerge and grow.
Making vital introductions
Providing unique creative space and time
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We have the contacts and experience to make new things happen.
The unique combination of contacts, skills and experience within the partnership means we can interpret and respond to the challenges the city has set us.
Our team has a unique combination of skills and more than 140 years’ experience in
>Social and biomedical science
>Third sector community health
>Marketing and communications
>Business administration
>Private sector insights, experience and contacts
>Higher education policy, partnerships and insights
>NHS nationally, regionally and locally (management and clinical)
>Health policy
>National and local government
So together, how are we changing our world?
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We’re putting the following new foundations in place to help Leeds be informed, adaptive and to continually learn.
Everyone in health and care working smarter, together The challenge
The challenge
As populations age and the demand for health and care services increase, where will the future workforce come from?
And as innovation is advancing quickly, training and development for our health and care workforce must also quickly adapt.
The solution
To respond to this challenge we designed and launched the new Leeds Health and Care Academy.
It supports the city’s ambition to have ‘one workforce’ across health and care, giving people a more seamless experience of its services.
Looking across organisational boundaries, using the latest training methods and embracing new technologies, it will help everyone think and work as if they are one citywide team for the people of Leeds.
It will help those in all Leeds’ communities to have the best possible chance of securing jobs and training in health and care.
And because our universities are helping design the education and training, our workforce will be informed by the very latest research and evidence.
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57,000 people as 'one workforce'
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Transforming culture, capacity and capability
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Working together across organisational boundaries
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Harnessing our universities' world-leading evidence, research and education
Making it personal
The challenge
No two people are the same. Yet traditionally, medicine and healthcare has offered a ‘one size fits all’ approach. So, how can we offer care that is more individual and personal?
The solution
Instead of considering illnesses in the same way for everyone, personalised medicine takes a closer look at each person’s unique biology.
Advances in science and technology means we can understand people’s individual risk of ill health and help them prevent it, in a way that is absolutely personal and best for them.
It also means we can provide the right care, individually tailored for them.
We launched the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health in 2016.
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Learning from data
The challenge
When we use health and care services, the people who care for us record information – or data about us. This means they have the most up-to-date information they need to provide that care as safely as possible.
But how else can we use that data in ways that benefit the people of Leeds?
The solution
By working carefully with Leeds people, we’re exploring how to enable city researchers to use this data for the public good.
It’s vital that this research is done in safe, legal, ethical and transparent ways.
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This will help Leeds develop new ways of predicting or diagnosing illness, develop new treatments and identify ways to to prevent ill health and improve care for its citizens.
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Harnessing technology
The challenge
How can we harness the best talent in health technology to solve our citizens’ greatest needs?
The healthtech sector is booming.
And this is forecast to continue and grow. Healthtech offers amazing new ways to prevent ill health, manage long-term conditions and even cure disease.
The solution
This can only succeed if the NHS, innovators, healthtech companies, universities and local government work closely together in a new way.
So - in a bold new move – we’ve brought these partners together from across the Leeds City Region to do just that.
Ultimately, this will help the region’s three million citizens enjoy healthier lives for longer.
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Keeping our city ahead of the game
These big, new ways of working all weave together
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Our health and care workforce
Working smarter together as if one citywide team, informed by the latest evidence, research and technologies.
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Making it personal
Understanding how to tailor care for each individual and discovering new ways to predict and prevent ill-health.
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Learning from data
Working carefully the people of Leeds to use their data to improve their health and care.
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Harnessing technology
Helping the NHS, innovators, healthtech companies, universities and local government to work closely together in new ways, to improve health and care for citizens.
Together this work is helping helping our city
understand and respond to what local people need to stay healthy
continually learn and stay informed
be the best city for health and wellbeing
A city where people in all our communities live healthier lives for longer
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