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Lancaster works with external organisations to support research, innovation and professional development in health and medicine.

Innovation in Healthcare

We work with the NHS, public sector, industry and voluntary sector organisations to develop solutions to health care problems; innovating for the benefit of patients, the NHS, industry and the wider economy.

Organisational Development

We build collaborative partnerships with organisations to achieve success through high quality work based learning. Our approach is bespoke, based on an understanding of your work agendas and development needs.

Knowledge Exchange Strategy

A novel platform across Lancashire and Cumbria for supporting knowledge exchange between Lancaster University and the NHS, introduced by the Collaborative Partnerships initiative in 2009.

Athena Swan

Since 2014, the Faculty of Health and Medicine has held the Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising our commitment to advancing the careers of women in higher education and research.
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Lancaster Health Hub

Research collaboration and healthcare innovation.

Lancaster Health Hub

Latest News

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Lancaster in UK initiative to widen access to medical school

Lancaster Medical School has been chosen to run a Medical Schools Council Summer School 2020 in collaboration with Edge Hill University and the University of Liverpool.
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Electronic nose to “sniff” dogs for deadly tropical disease

Fewer dogs in Brazil may be euthanized unnecessarily after researchers showed that a new test  is 95% accurate  in  identifying the deadly disease Leishmaniasis. 
The early identification of clinical deterioration in children is an ongoing challenge across the NHS

Identifying early warning signs of deterioration in child patients

Electronic hand held devices are being used to record patients’ vital signs at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in the first research study of its kind in the UK as an early warning system for children.
Delegates at the recent Health Innovation Campus Re-imagining Health and Wellbeing event

Health Innovation Campus launches new leadership programme for SMEs

The team behind Lancaster University’s £41m Health Innovation Campus has launched an exciting new leadership programme to give people the skills to drive forward groundbreaking products and services.
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Listening to “noisy knees” to diagnose osteoarthritis: The first human cohort study

A new way of diagnosing and assessing knee osteoarthritis (OA) has moved a step closer with a major study paving the way for its use in research and clinical practice.

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