Three of Cardiff’s leading health partners are joining forces to create a new unique partnership designed to improve health outcomes, drive innovation, and create lasting benefits for patients.

Cardiff Health Partners (CHP) will see Velindre University NHS Trust, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Cardiff University come together formally to strengthen healthcare delivery, foster research excellence, economic growth, and social wellbeing across the capital and wider South East Wales region.

The new partnership is expected to contribute at least £840 million to the economy over the next decade and create thousands of skilled jobs in life sciences.

It will also open up new opportunities for colleagues to collaborate across research, clinical care and education, access cutting-edge projects that directly improve patient outcomes, and develop new skills that drive innovation benefiting patients, communities and the wider population across Wales and beyond.

Cardiff Health Partners’ initial focus will be on globally recognised competitive strengths including Cancer, Brain Therapies, and Precision Medicine. The Cardiff Cancer Research Partnership sits within the cancer thematic area and this alignment provides an exciting opportunity for the CCRP to expand even further.

It will see the three partners linking assets and capabilities across the partnership into coherent testbeds and pathways. It’s hoped this will help reduce barriers through shared governance, streamlined research delivery, and federated data access.

Take a look at the Cardiff Health Partners website here