In our Regional Leadership Series report Building healthy cities: The role of universities in the health ecosystem, we set out a case for the contribution universities make to health and wellbeing. The report also explores the opportunities that devolution offers alongside the challenges currently facing the NHS.
Our universities play a unique and crucial role – as anchor institutions – to ensure everyone can live healthy, happy and productive lives. Below are a number of case studies showing how they are providing leadership and coordination, working in partnership to co-design solutions, making services more responsive to local needs, training the health workforce of tomorrow and harnessing world-class research to make a real difference to our communities.
Teaching & training
University of Lincoln: Meeting the workforce needs of local healthcare community
The University of Lincoln is producing new generations of nurses…
Teaching & training
Plymouth University: The Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise
Plymouth is helping to lead a transformation in dental education…
Teaching & training
Kingston University: Paramedic virtual reality training centre
State-of-the-art centre helps students practice in real-life emergency settings…
Career Professional Development
The Open University: The NHS Leadership Academy
The Open University is helping to ensure NHS workforce has the skills it needs…
Career Professional Development
University of South Wales: The Larval Academy
Increasing confidence and training in wound management using larvae…
Career Professional Development
Sheffield Hallam University: End of life care Massive Open Online Course
Free online course supports health and social care workers providing palliative care…
Research
University of Portsmouth: Software ‘watches’ patients’ vital signs and saves lives
Clinical system used in handheld devices such as iPads saved almost 800 lives in first year…
Research
University of Salford: Living well with dementia
Enabling people with dementia to live positive and fulfilled lives…
Research
Sheffield Hallam University: Lab4Living
Bringing together researchers from design, creative practice and healthcare…
Health networks & partnerships
University of Huddersfield: Developing greater understanding of treatment of wounds and skin defects
Unlocking the secrets of a device’s effectiveness in treating wounds…
Health networks & partnerships
Coventry University: Developing innovative community health care products
Collaborating with businesses, healthcare practitioners, academics and end-users…
Health networks & partnerships
University of Greenwich: Teaming up in the community
Teaming up with Charlton Athletics FC on innovative partnership…
Health networks & partnerships
Liverpool John Moores University: Tackling the impact of violence and abuse
Partnership between the university and WHO tackling impact of violence…
Campus wellbeing
Teesside University: Festival offers a health boost for body and mind
Staff and students access activities during annual Festival of Wellbeing…
Campus wellbeing
Oxford Brookes University: Promoting wellbeing for all
The quality of our health, fitness and mental wellbeing is important to us all…
Campus wellbeing
UWE Bristol: Resilience programme helps students develop ’emotional wealth’
An emotional resilience (ER) programme is going from strength to strength…
