Find out more about the North of England as a global research and innovation hub – explore strategies for successful collaboration with NHS innovation teams, find out how to build a successful partnership for trials and evaluations and discover how you can work with the region to better the unmet need of the North’s 16 million NHS patient population. Our panellists will discuss how to maximise your chances of success when engaging with NHS Trusts, expand on what Trusts are looking for and try to demystify the steps to success for innovators.

Use code HE25_NHSA250 for a €250 discount off the ticket price at the point of registration.

Speakers:

CHAIR: Hannah Davies, Chief Executive, Northern Health Science Alliance

Hannah has led the Northern Health Science Alliance’s (NHSA) health inequalities work from launching the 2018 Health for Wealth report to the most recent Health Equity North Woman of the North report, developing relationships with academics, government and other stakeholders. Hannah is also Executive Director of Health Equity North.

Dr Dan Hawcutt, Clinical Research Facility Director, at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Hawcutt is one of six consultant paediatric clinical pharmacologists in the UK, and the only one engaged with early-phase paediatric clinical trials.

Liz Pryde, Head of Operations at NIHR HealthTech Research Centre Long-term conditions (Devices for Dignity)

Liz manages the HealthTech Research Centre’s Programme Team and relationships with their partners and collaborators across national networks and is responsible for all contractual management, NIHR reporting and the implementation of the HRC strategy.

Vinoth Sankar, Consultant in Critical Care at University Hospitals of Liverpool Group NHS Trust

Vinoth has been selected as one of 20 global innovation ambassadors for HLTH 2025 – Europe’s largest health innovation event. This is in recognition of the work Vinoth and team at UHoL have achieved in building capacity and an innovative culture at across the Hospital trust

Chris Herbert, Director of Operations: Research and Innovation at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Chris oversees the strategic development and operational management of Research and Innovation across one of the UK’s largest Trusts. He is responsible for strategic development and management of research with more than 900 live clinical research projects at the Trust, which hosts major national infrastructures such as NIHR Biomedical Research Facility and National Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC).