The experience gained across the Partnership allows us to combine high quality research with operational delivery excellence to deliver maximum impact and return on investment.
This world-class environment was recognised in 2020 by the NIHR, NHS England and NHS Improvement award of Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) status to Newcastle Health Research Partnership. This is one of only eight Academic Health Science Centres (AHSC) in the UK.
Newcastle Hospitals is an ambitious and successful teaching hospital NHS Trust, and has a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
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Newcastle Hospitals has a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. They are leaders in healthcare research and development across a wide range of clinical specialities delivering benefits not only for today’s patients but for generations to come.
CNTW is a highly research-active partner, and hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North East and North Cumbria.
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CNTW is one of the largest mental health, learning disability and neurorehabilitation NHS Trusts in England and has a significant research profile as one of the most research-active mental health Trusts in England. It leads and facilitates the delivery of research and innovation across the organisation and beyond into the wider health system.
It is regarded as research leaders in autism, affective disorders, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and dementia and is able to draw on some of the UKs best mental health and learning disability clinical academic researchers.
Newcastle University is a leading, research-intensive UK university – as well as a global leader in ageing research.
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Newcastle is one of the UK’s largest and most successful centres for research-led medical education, with a world-class reputation. Its long and proud history has provided a strong foundation for it to grow and innovate. Newcastle University also boasts a well-established expertise around ageing research, having invested in studies, staff and infrastructure to advance work in this area.
We work together with other partners in the North East of England building on existing BRC-focused translational ageing research infrastructure. The NIHR Newcastle BRC is central to partnership plans to develop the Campus for Ageing and Vitality site into a world-leading location for innovation and evaluation.
The world-class environment was recognised in 2020 by the award of Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) status. One of only eight AHSCs in the UK, it brings together Newcastle University, both NHS Trusts, Newcastle Council and the Northumbria University. Its vision is to be a globally recognised health research partnership that delivers significant local impact.
NIHR Newcastle BRC works with national centres hosted by Newcastle University. The National Innovation Centre for Ageing is a £40M co-investment with UK Government. It brings together world-leading scientists, business and industry, health and care providers, and the public.This is co-located with the National Innovation Centre for Data, a £30M centre which enables the UK to capitalise on data opportunities across sectors and grow the economy.The NIHR Newcastle BRC also links with the NIHR Innovation Observatory, the national medical horizon scanning facility.
National Innovation Centre for Ageing
National Innovation Centre for Data
NIHR Innovation Observatory
The NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre leads the North East North Cumbria (NENC) NIHR Infrastructure Group, developed initially to provide resilience and shared learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This brings together Directors and Managers of the region's NIHR funded research infrastructure including the Applied Research Collaborations (ARC), Research Support Service, Research Delivery Network (RDN), Commercial Research Delivery Centres, HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) and Clinical Research Facilities (CRF) as well as locally hosted national NIHR School for Public Health Research, Innovation Observatory and Policy Research Units (Healthy Ageing, Behavioural and Social Sciences).
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East and North CumbriaNIHR Newcastle Clinical Research FacilityNIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Diagnostic and Technology EvaluationNIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre NewcastlePublic Health Intervention Responsive Studies TeamResearch Support ServiceClinical Trials UnitNIHR Research Delivery NetworkNIHR BioResource NewcastleNIHR Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Behavioural and Social SciencesNIHR Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Healthy AgeingNIHR Innovation ObservatoryNewcastle Adult and Paediatric Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres (ECMC)NIHR Newcastle Patient Safety Research CollaborationNIHR Gateshead Health Determinants Research Collaboration NIHR Newcastle Health Determinants Research CollaborationNIHR South Tees Health Determinants Research Collaboration NIHR Cumberland Health Determinants Research Collaboration NIHR School of Public Health ResearchNIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public HealthMLTC Cross NIHR Collaboration