Northern Health Futures Hub

北方健康期货（NortHFutures）中心旨在打造世界领先的医疗科技（Health -tech）发展生态系统。这将通过支持：包容性数字技能培训和分享来解决未满足的卫生需求和不平等现象；数字化设计使研究、创新和创业成为可能。NortHFutures位于东北和北坎布里亚郡（NENC），拥有全国和全球影响力，将支持服务不足的社区，因为众所周知，在NENC投资的国家差异对人口健康和福祉产生负面影响，需要“升级”投资来刺激所有人的社会经济和文化增长，鼓励生活和老龄化。NortHFutures以NENC的联合方法为基础，以人为本进行数字健康创新，因为我们的区域综合护理委员会（ICB）独特地涉及地方当局、社区和公民。学术团队成员具有利益相关者参与、公民和社区参与的研究记录。他们在理解(i)从医学、社会和设计角度的健康不平等，以及（ii）与老龄化相关的丰富和实现机会，连接农村和城市人口，以及开创性的数据科学应用方面处于世界领先地位。在试点阶段，我们利用这一专家专门知识，解决经证实在国家和全球范围内未得到满足的卫生需求：儿童和青年的健康和营养；心理健康和福祉；开发数字手术路径（用于监测患者在医院以外的行程）；在多种长期条件下生活得很好。我们结合了6所大学（纽卡斯尔，坎布里亚郡，达勒姆，诺森比亚，桑德兰和提赛德）的优势和资源，将区域投资引入NIHR服务，设施和应用研究合作，以及国家老龄化创新中心（NICA），数据（NICD）和农村企业（NICRE），国家视野中心（NHC）， EPSRC数据和数字公民数字经济计划，以及英国健康数据研究中心，英国国家健康数据科学研究所。NortHFutures支持新的计划中心，包括诺桑比亚的健康与社会公平中心和坎布里亚的新校区和医学院。这些大学与广泛的合作伙伴网络相结合，包括：ICB-NENC， 7个NHS信托基金，NHS商业服务管理局，卫生和社会保障部，英格兰健康教育；提供社区服务的VCSE组织；行业合作伙伴——从中小企业到全球科技巨头；地方和联合当局等公民机构；现有的卫生研究网络（如AHSN-NENC、纽卡斯尔卫生创新伙伴关系）；创新加速器（如创新超级网络）。NortHFutures雄心勃勃的目标是通过整合的区域性方法首次联合该联盟，在数字健康领域建立全球领导地位。为了实现这一目标，我们将发展一个支持性的社区基础设施。我们将共同设计一种数字经纪服务，以连接和扩大合作伙伴的工作，提供和消费专业知识、服务和设施（支持不同技术准备水平的医疗技术公司加速发展）。我们将开创一个实时数字健康数据库，探索并培训先进的医疗数据分析，将实时数据流与护理记录（例如Great North care Record）结合起来。这将支持个性化的健康诊断和干预，为希望探索先进数据技术的公司提供独特的价值主张。我们将投资于扩展现实试点，为临床实践和服务提供开辟可能性。我们的方法将把负责任的研究与创新（RRI）和患者与公众参与（PPIE）贯穿始终，提供与最终用户共同设计的医疗技术，支持医院以外的医疗服务。

The Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) hub aims to create a world-leading healthcare technology (health-tech) development ecosystem. This will address unmet health needs and inequalities by supporting: inclusive digital skills training and sharing; research, innovation and entrepreneurship, enabled by digital design. Based in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC), with national and global reach, NortHFutures will support underserved communities, as it is known that national disparity of investment in NENC negatively impacts population health and wellbeing, and that a 'levelling up' of investment is needed to stimulate socio-economic and cultural growth for all, to encourage living and ageing well. NortHFutures builds upon the joined-up NENC approach to people-powered digital health innovation, as our regional Integrated Care Board (ICB) uniquely involves local authorities, communities, and citizens. Academic team members have a research track record that is stakeholder-involved and civic- and community-engaged. They are world-leading on understanding (i) health inequalities from medical, social, and design perspectives, and (ii) the opportunities for enrichment and enablement related to ageing well, connecting rural and urban populations, and pioneering applications of data science. In the pilot phase, we draw on this specialist expertise to address evidenced unmet health needs in NENC, (which have national and global importance): children and young people's health and nutrition; mental health and wellbeing; development of digital surgical pathways (for monitoring patient journeys beyond the hospital); living well with multiple long-term conditions. We combine the strengths and resources of 6 universities (Newcastle, Cumbria, Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside), bringing regional investment in NIHR services, facilities and Applied Research Collaborations, plus National Innovation Centres for Ageing (NICA), Data (NICD) and Rural Enterprise (NICRE), National Horizons Centre (NHC), EPSRC Digital Economy programmes in data and digital citizens, and Health Data Research UK, the UK's national institute for health data science. NortHFutures supports new planned Centres, including Northumbria's Centre for Health & Social Equity and Cumbria's new campus and medical school. These University offers combine with an extensive partner network, including: ICB-NENC, 7 NHS Trusts, NHS Business Services Authority, Department of Health and Social Care, Health Education England; VCSE organisations delivering community-based services; industry partners - from SMEs to global tech giants; civic bodies such as Local and Combined Authorities; existing health research networks (e.g. AHSN-NENC, Newcastle Health Innovation Partnership); and innovation accelerators (e.g. Innovation SuperNetwork). Through an integrated, regional approach uniting this consortium for the first time, NortHFutures ambitiously aims to establish global leadership in Digital Health.To deliver this we will develop a supportive community infrastructure. We will co-design a digital brokerage service to connect and amplify partners' work, to offer and consume expertise, services and facilities (supporting acceleration of health-tech companies at differing tech-readiness levels). We will pioneer a Live Digital Health Databank, to explore, and train for, advanced healthcare data analytics, combining live data flows with care records (e.g. Great North Care Record). This will support personalised health diagnostics and interventions, giving our hub a unique value proposition to companies wishing to explore advanced data technologies. We will invest in Extended Reality pilots, to open up possibilities for clinical practice and service delivery. Our approaches will embed Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), and Patient and Public Engagement (PPIE) throughout, to deliver health-tech that supports care beyond the hospital and is co-designed with end-users.