Festival greetings to all of our friends and colleagues! We’ve put together our own Northern Health Science Alliance 12 days of Christmas – it’s weak on melody but strong in content!

1. One year completed of the £20m DoH funded Health North Connected Health Cities project
2. Two UK Government Health Ministers attended the NHSA at 5 Day of Action
3. Three star reference status awarded to four Active and Healthy Ageing Reference sites across the North of England’s AHSNs
4. Four NIHR BRCs now in the North bringing £55m to the region
5. Five years since the NHSA founders established the Alliance
6. Six NHSA team members now delivering the vision of the NHSA
7. Seven NHSA Board members working together for a year
8. Eight great Northern city regions working together for health and wealth benefit
9. Nine global cities from Minneapolis, Singapore to Berlin covered by the NHSA in 2016
10. Number 10 seeks NHSA input into the new industrial Strategy for health and life science
11. Eleven pan-regional clinical collaborations now active across NHSA members
12. Twelve new commercial partnership opportunities converted from over thirty leads in 2016 by the NHSA team