North inequalities cost UK economy £7.3bn over first year of the pandemic
COVID-19 has had a major impact on everyone’s lives across the UK. However, a new report has found that northerners were affected more severely by the pandemic. People in the North were more likely to die from COVID-19, spent nearly a month and-a-half more in lockdowns, suffered worse mental health and were made poorer than […]
Bradford and Craven Innovation Hub – Improvement Academy supporting leaders to implement innovations that will improve outcomes locally
Bradford District and Craven has been selected by the Health Foundation to be one of four Innovation Hubs. The project will involve all NHS organisations across the Bradford District and Craven ‘place’ including, the local authority working alongside the Voluntary and Community Sector Assembly; Healthwatch Bradford; Bradford Institute of Health Research; Yorkshire & Humber Academic […]
YHARC wins funding from the Department of Health and Social Care to establish a Yorkshire Adolescent Mental Health Collaboratory
As part of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Mental Health Initiative, the Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (YH ARC) will receive almost £750,000 to support and prevent mental ill health in our region’s young population. The programme, which brings together expertise from two of our four ARC themes (Mental Health and […]
Unlocking real-world data to promote and protect health and prevent ill-health in the Yorkshire and Humber region
The Universities of Sheffield, York, and Leeds have joined forces with Local Authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) from the Sheffield and York areas, and the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR) to ‘unlock’ the potential of routinely collected real-world data to promote and protect health and prevent ill-health in local and regional settings. The […]
ReQoL in Practice Online Community of Practice Website
We are pleased to announce that Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) Implementation Community of Practice website has undergone some changes. The website now features the ReQoL-10 online visualisation tool and a resources section. The idea for the online CoP came from delegates who attended the World Café workshop, facilitated during the ReQoL in Practice Event: […]
New International Collaborative – Ageing Research Trialists (ART) Steering Committee
Professor Andrew Clegg (Theme Lead for Older People with Frailty, Yorkshire and Humber ARC) is the Chair of the Ageing Research Trialists (ART) Steering Committee. Established as part of Yorkshire and Humber ARC, this international collaborative brings together trialists with a common focus on transforming care for older people across nations. The team will support […]
Three Yorkshire cities will be joining our ARC’s Born and Bred in (BaBi) Research network!
BaBi is network of local electronic birth cohort studies that work together to link routine data across health, education, and social care to create a picture of families’ lives over time. This means that, with consent from pregnant women, routine data recorded by the services they access themselves or for their babies is joined together […]
Emerald Literati Award awarded to our Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality (HEEE) theme
Noted by the Emerald Insight editorial team as: “one of the most exceptional pieces of work they saw throughout 2019’, our HEEE theme’s paper has been awarded for research on an extensive analysis of the Harrogate Vanguard programme. The paper “Does the integration of response services lead to meaningful change in healthcare activity? A case […]
ARC Yorkshire and Humber Launches New Lunch and Learn Series
The Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Yorkshire and Humber has announced a series of Lunch and Learn events starting this November. The online events will feature expert speakers sharing the latest research, impact, insights and advancements in their fields. Kicking off the series on November 8th, Professor Anne-Maree Keenan, Associate Dean at the NIHR Academy, will […]
How NIHR ARCs rose to the challenge of COVID-19
A national publication highlighting how National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs) rose to the challenge of COVID-19 launches today, the third anniversary of the first UK lockdown. Vital work from across the ARCs in response to the pandemic is showcased in NIHR ARCs: Supporting the fight against COVID-19 (PDF), including […]