CLCH joins new academic health science partnership

25 November 2011

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) is one of 11 partners in the planned Academic Health Science Partnership (AHSP) announced by Imperial College London.

The AHSP intends to bring together providers of primary, secondary, tertiary, community and mental healthcare in north west London to work with Imperial College London to improve the health and care of the area's population of 1.9 million people.

Professor the Lord Darzi, Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London and former parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department of Health, has developed the proposal, which aims to support collaborative approaches in innovating in healthcare and present opportunities to conduct clinical trials at a large and meaningful scale, the findings of which will benefit a greater number of patients. The AHSP could also take a leading role in training and educating healthcare professionals.

Lord Darzi said: "The partners involved in developing the AHSP face many common challenges but have one unifying goal: to bring the highest quality care to the people of north west London. By focusing on our strengths and systematically implementing what is known across the partnership about providing the best clinical care through innovation, we should achieve much more than we could apart.

James A. Reilly, Chief Executive of CLCH, said: "We very much look forward to our involvement in the Academic Health Science Partnership for North West London, and the opportunity it creates to share expertise across the healthcare sector. Collaboration is essential, to ensure effective, integrated, quality services that will benefit our local patients."

The other institutions and healthcare providers that have agreed to progress plans for the AHSP are:

• Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust
• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
• Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Imperial College London
• North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
• Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
• West London Mental Health Trust
• West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
• This is the first partnership of its kind in north west London and the partners hope to launch the AHSP formally in April 2012.

Read more about the partnership on Imperial College London's website.

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