Nottingham
Serves: 2.5 million people (further 3-4 million via specialist services). Beds: 1700
Based in the heart of Nottingham, Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the largest employers in the region, employing around 12,000 people at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House. NUH have a national and international reputation for their comprehensive range of clinical services. Nottingham offers some of the best infrastructure in the UK for supporting early-phase translational research in the hearing sciences. It also host to the Institute of Mental Health that seeks to help transform the understanding and treatment of mental health by bridging the gap between campus and clinic. It is a partnership between two highly respected organisations, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Nottingham As a teaching trust they have a strong relationship with their colleagues at The University of Nottingham and other universities across the East Midlands, including Loughborough University, where they are part of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine.
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
The Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) are based in the heart of Nottingham and provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham and its surrounding communities. They also provide specialist services for a further 3-4 million people from across the region. They’re one of the largest employers in the region, employing around 15,000 people at QMC, Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House.
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham's position as a world-class University is confirmed by its ranking in the global league tables. They are ranked in the UK and European top 30 and in the top 1 percent of all universities worldwide.
NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre
The Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) provide the platform for transformational partnerships between internationally-renowned clinicians and researchers. The research they do aims to drive forward advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of health conditions across six key themes: hearing, mental health and technology, respiratory disease, gastrointestinal and liver diseases, musculoskeletal disease and magnetic resonance imaging.
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands
ARC East Midlands is a collaboration made up of world class clinical academics, NHS and other health and social care partners supported by close relations with the public. Its primary aim is to deliver a program of research aimed at improving outcomes for patients and the public and to increase the efficiency, quality, accessibility and sustainability of care services. All of our research will be of the highest scientific quality and addresses the most important health and care challenges for communities across our region and nationally.
NIHR Nottingham Clinical Research Facility
We provide the expertise, facilities and equipment to conduct world-class experimental medicine and early phase clinical trials.
Based at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), one of the largest and busiest teaching hospitals in the UK, we have 2,000m2 of NIHR accredited facilities managed by clinical and specialist staff expert in developing and delivering experimental medicine.
Nottingham has contributed to some of the world’s most advanced medical innovations that are transforming the lives of patients. We are carrying out internationally important research in a number of areas including respiratory diseases, hearing loss and tinnitus, musculoskeletal diseases, gastrointestinal and liver disorders, mental health and dementia, ophthalmology and breast cancer. We have expertise in the development of diagnostics, drugs and medical devices.
AHSN East Midlands
Academic Health Science Networks have a primary responsibility to their member and partner organisations within the geography in which they operate. Each of the 15 AHSNs has developed a bespoke offer that reflects local priorities, whilst contributing to the collective AHSN endeavour. EMAHSN’s focus is on delivering outcomes more efficiently through the adoption and spread of proven innovations and initiatives at pace and scale.
NIHR MENTAL HEALTH MEDTECH CO-OPERATIVE
MindTech is one of 11 MedTech and In-vitro diagnostic Co-operatives (MICs) funded by the NIHR, each focusing on a difference clinical area. MindTech is a national centre focussing on the development, adoption and evaluation of new technologies for mental healthcare and dementia.
They aim to identify unmet needs of patients, families and professionals, to collaborate on developing and testing of new technologies, and to work with NHS organisations to increase adoption.
They are interested in all aspects of mental health but have specific interests in dementia, depression and anxiety and neurodevelopment disorders (such as Tourette Syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Link to website: https://www.mindtech.org.uk
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