Achieving
our goals

• local authorities across the wider region, to prioritise health and care
• universities and NHS organisations to develop training and adoption of new services and products
• the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) to increase international investment in the North of England.

• improved links between under and post-graduate course content
• implementing processes that promote more multi-disciplinary working
• ensuring research themes span institutes and have with multi-professional leadership.

• Translating discoveries in ageing research into new treatments.
• Congenital heart disease – maximising value from a £40M NHS England investment for paediatric heart surgery
• Oncology – through a Newcastle hospitals based cancer trails centre, increasing research-led capacity and providing regional access to new therapies.
• Inflammation medicine – developing a multi-disciplinary centre for diagnostics, precision medicine and multi-morbidity.
• Coordinate and drive research in diagnosis and treatment of mental illness associated with physical disease, through intermediate physical care facilities co-locate with mental health services
• Develop a centre for training and development in robotic and digital surgery – Newcastle is currently the UK centre for robotic-assisted surgery training and will build on relationships with robotic and digital platform companies and computational science and data with the Turing Institute.
• ‘Pathfinder’ work for the Accelerated Access Collaborative programme.
• Work at the Newcastle Campus for Ageing and Vitality (CAV) to support economic growth.

Basing implementation of health care initiatives and services on evaluation and engagement with stakeholders including local authorities, the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System and relevant regulatory authorities.