Health research is important to the development of new care and treatments and to improving health and wellbeing. We are proud that our Trust is an active research organisation and has a strong track record of research having been involved in research activities for over 25 years.
We have brilliant research teams and enthusiastic participants, excellent infrastructure both in terms of facilities and support departments, and strong partnerships and collaboration – all these are key ingredients to our research success.
Research takes place throughout the Foundation Trust in most of our clinical specialties and we are a leading centre for applied health research with our Bradford Institute for Health Research and have:
- An international reputation in applied research with a particular focus on child health, older people and quality and safety of health care including the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research and the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber.
- A strong track record in clinical research with ability to recruit patients quickly (global and national firsts) and deliver recruitment targets. BTHFT hosts one of five NIHR National Patient Recruitment Centres in the UK.
- World class community research cohorts. Born in Bradford, the global-first experimental birth cohort study Born in Bradford’s Better Start and the Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research (ASR) CARE 75+ frail elderly cohort are leading the world in community engagement in research and translation of research into policy and practice.
- One of the UK’s leading improvement agencies, the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Academy, and one of the top patient safety teams, the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group.
- Whole system research. Bradford has an excellent track record of collaboration across health and education sectors and close co-production with patients and communities including a UK Prevention Research Consortium to establish an ActEarly ‘City Collaboratory’ to tackle the wider determinants of health.
- Connected data. Bradford hosts the Connected Yorkshire programme that is working to enable safe and secure sharing and analysis of data to redesign pathways of care.
