Achieving
our goals
The AHSC will achieve its goals through:
Scientific Advancement
Discovering new causes of disease, developing diagnostic tools and treatments, particularly in aging, long-term and rare conditions, building on our track-record of excellence.
Translating discoveries into healthcare
Accelerating scientific discoveries into routine diagnostics and care, making a real difference to the NHS.
Careers and skills training
Developing capacity and capability in the healthcare workforce through cutting-edge, research-led education, equipping the workforce of today for the health challenges of tomorrow.
Economic impact
Contributing to economic growth by strengthening links between industry and the NHS, whilst improving population health and closing the productivity gap across the UK.
Achievement of our goals will be enabled through:
1. Consolidated and expanded partnerships, including working with:
- 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.
2. A highly developed multi-disciplinary and multi-professional approach, including:
- 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.
3. A multi-partner approach to research, training and commercial innovation, integrating research and service excellence with capital investment and focusing on the following areas:
- 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.
4. Taking a ‘place-based’ approach for rural and city populations
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.
