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About the Centre for Healthcare Research

The Centre for Healthcare Research seeks to enable academic and clinical healthcare leaders, educators and researchers to develop and lead research across the NHS, universities and partners.  By creating the key links between research, practice and education we are making  a difference to patient care and the healthcare workforce at local, national and global level.Through the combination of academic and clinical expertise, the centre seeks to make a difference to patient and service user experience health policy, practice, delivery and education.

The centre works closely with the Centre for Care Excellence and a number of other centres.

As a centre we strive to display the following characteristics:

  • Agile and disruptive
  • Collaborative and co-creative
  • Ethical and sustainable
  • Excellent and impactful
  • Challenge led and transdisciplinary

Emerging Themes

The research work of the team follows these themes:

  • Care, treatment and experiences
  • Building global workforce capacity
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