£3m base to help city experts to raise health of elderly and young
RESEARCHERS FROM Leeds and Bradford are to work together to improve the health of children and older people through the development of a groundbreaking new £3m centre.
The hub, which will be based in Bradford, will also develop new ways of hospital care designed to boost safety for patients.
Teams from the universities of Leeds and Bradford will work with clinicians from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the innovative Wolfson Centre for Applied Healthcare Research.
Funding for the centre, which will be located next to Bradford Royal Infirmary, includes a £1m donation from national charity The Wolfson Foundation, with further contributions from the two universities and the trust.
The Wolfson Foundation’s chief executive, Paul Ramsbottom, said: “We were very impressed by the high quality of the research that will take place in Bradford.
“The new centre will be an excellent example of how universities and an NHS Trust can work together to encourage research which will have a direct practical benefit to patients – in Bradford, across Yorkshire and beyond.
“We are particularly pleased to be funding in Bradford, and hope that this project will make the city a beacon for outstanding, applied health research.”
By combining the expertise of health researchers with working medics, the results of research will be able to rapidly be put into practice, improving care for Yorkshire patients.
The Bradford Institute for Health Research’s director, Professor John Wright, said: “Our new national Wolfson Centre for Applied Healthcare Research will bring together doctors and researchers to work out how we can speed up the translation of research into benefits for patients.
“Too much medical research lies collecting dust in dry academic journals. Our new centre will help catalyse cutting edge science to improve health and wellbeing of people in our communities.”