The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber is hosted within Bradford Institute for Health Research at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
We have four research themes aligned to regional and national priorities: Delivering Care Closer to Home, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Families and Mental Health. Our two cross-cutting themes; Health Economics and Data Visualisation and AI adopt an interdisciplinary and system-wide approach to health and social care research.
NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) support applied health and care research that responds to, and meets, the needs of local populations and local health and care systems.
Each NIHR ARC is made up of local providers of NHS services, local providers of care services, NHS commissioners, local authorities, universities, VCSFE and the community to focus on addressing the major health challenges faced by our population. With a clear focus on knowledge mobilisation, ARCs aim to speed up the translation of research into practice for the top priorities of the health and care system.
The 11 ARCs work collaboratively to address national research priorities, with individual ARCs providing national leadership in their areas of expertise.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the nation’s largest funder of health and care research. It provides the people, facilities and technology to enable research to thrive.
NIHR’s mission is to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. The NIHR was established in 2006 and is primarily funded by the Department of Health and Social Care.
We promote cross discipline, profession/sector working to extract value across professions disciplines and services, and developing pan-Yorkshire and Humber strengths.
We engage effectively with the public and service users to promote genuine community and patient co-production of research and delivery of impact.
We develop learning health and care systems using routine data collection and linkage across primary, secondary and community care, education and social services.
We aim to inspire and train the next generation of researchers, harnessing local creativity and involving staff to develop and test new approaches.
We involve staff providing services to address relevant questions, promote findings and realise impact. This will be supported by the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Academy.
We are supported by experts in the cross-cutting Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality theme to consider how our research can reduce health inequalities.
We use our world-leading cohorts, involving more than 100,000 active participants, to develop and test interventions.
Our approach is non-bureaucratic, channelling resource into research, implementation and capacity development.
We engage with health and social policy organisations which reflect service users’ journeys through age, place and organisation, and which influence levels and distribution of health and wellbeing.
We have strong internal strategic and operational management at all levels. A Partnership Strategy Board, representing stakeholders and an International Advisory Board assures the relevance and quality of research.