Our Partners

University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a powerhouse in science, technology, engineering, and medicine, renowned for its excellence in teaching (TEF Gold) and a strong commitment to innovation and real-world impact.

Our vibrant health research community includes over 100 principal investigators leading cutting-edge programmes across a wide range of disciplines: from life sciences and medicine to medical device engineering and policy change.

We work in close partnership with NHS trusts, with 30 clinical academics co-delivering research that informs patient care, service delivery, and population health. Areas of clinical research strength include reproductive medicine, trauma & orthopaedics, emergency and critical care, psychiatry and public health. Our innovative graduate entry medicine programme is the largest in the UK and trains around 200 “Warwick Doctors” each year.

Warwick’s international reputation for interdisciplinary research is driven by a network of university-wide centres focused on key health challenges, including:

• Infectious Disease Research
• Women’s Health and Early Life
• Brain, Behaviour, Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Organising Health and Care
• Health Economics and Clinical Trials
• Data Science and AI for Health

Through Warwick Innovations, the University has supported the creation of over 100 spin-out companies, with a third of the active portfolio focused on health technologies and services. Our Institute of Translational Medicine fosters a dynamic ecosystem that links scientific discovery, pre-clinical research, clinical trials, and healthcare delivery—ensuring that innovation moves seamlessly from bench to bedside.

Current objectives and priorities in health include:

• Planning for Arden Cross, where the University is acting as the lead partner for a new Health Tech campus to be built at the HS2 interchange station near the NEC/BHX
• Forming closer relationships with local and regional partners as well as industry to improve public health and patient outcomes by working collaboratively and translating more of their research into application.

Coventry University

Coventry University is a dynamic institution known for teaching excellence (TEF Gold), impactful research, and bold international partnerships. Its mission, “Creating Better Futures,” is driven by education, research, and innovation that have real-world societal impacts.

The university is internationally recognized for its expertise in health, addressing regional, national, and global challenges through interdisciplinary research centres:

• Health and Life Sciences
• Healthcare and Communities
• Centre for Care Excellence
• Centre for Intelligent Healthcare
• Centre for Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Sciences

Coventry University’s mission is to improve human health, professional practice, patient outcomes, and cost-effective care through synergistic research and innovations focusing on “Molecules/cells to public/community health.” Their research targets major public health concerns like ageing, chronic illnesses, mental health, cardiovascular and vascular diseases, cancer, and immunological and metabolic disorders.

Collaborating with industry and healthcare partners, Coventry aims to accelerate the adoption of innovations into the NHS. One example of this is the partnership with University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) via the co-location in the Community Diagnostic Centre, in the centre of Coventry, which will support the delivery of education, training, research, and innovation (i.e. diagnostics) establishing a landmark facility for high-quality diagnostic healthcare.

 Objectives and priorities in health include:

• Build on regional synergies - Fundamental and Translational Health Research
• Grow and Support Allied Health Professional, Healthcare Scientist and Clinical Research Capacity across the region
• Growth of Health and Care related enterprise and innovations and collaboration with industry partners.
• Growth of funding to underpin research and innovation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW)

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) is one of the UK's largest teaching Trusts responsible for managing two major hospitals in Coventry and Rugby, which between them serve a population of over a million people, and adult community services in Coventry,. The Trust works in partnership with both the University of Warwick and Coventry University across a range of research, innovation and teaching programmes including being the principal teaching hospital for Warwick Medical School.

Our vision captures our ambition to deliver world-leading care for our communities, and our five purposes - integrated care, research innovation and teaching, being a centre for excellence, sustainability and valuing and enabling our people - sets out how we will achieve this.

Our strategic priorities for the next two years include:

• Completion of our Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Coventry city centre and move to full operational status to provide tens of thousands more CT, MRI and Ultrasound scans to our population, and access to training, teaching and research in this area through the co-location of Coventry University in the CDC.
• Transformation of adult community physical health services in Coventry to create truly integrated care pathways for our patients, with a focus on reducing health inequalities by utilising a population health management approach.
• Realising the associated patient centred benefits of improved care, access, safety, and outcomes from our new Electronic Patient Record system.
• Developing our Rugby St Cross site as a key enabler for our centres of excellence programmes including the implementation of our “Health on the High Street” ambitions.
• Building on the solid foundations of our strategic relationships with key industry partners to promote innovation and impact.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT)

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) is a provider of adult mental health and learning disability and autism services, and provides specialist mental, physical, and learning disabilities and autism services for children and young people. The Trust has a strong track record in education in partnership with both Coventry University and the University of Warwick. In research, there is a continued focus on population health, with ongoing activity in autism and neurodiversity with the University of Warwick.

The Trust is focusing on 6 strategic work streams in 2025:

• Ensuring the fundamentals of care: putting significant focus on the improvement across all of our services to ensure we provide the very best care for our community
• Development of an Integrated Children’s service
• Becoming a Learning Disabilities & Autism centre of excellence
• Transforming in-patient care: co-producing, with stakeholders, a strategic plan to localise and realign mental health inpatient services
• Becoming an employer of choice
• Gaining University Trust status

CWPT continues to focus on working in partnership with patients, carers, those with lived experience and the wider community to ensure that services are developed based on insights from all stakeholders, and to continue to combat health inequalities across the region.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT)

The Foundation Group

The Foundation Group was set up as a partnership in 2017 initially between South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) and Wye Valley NHS Trust. George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust (GEH) joined the Foundation Group a year later in 2018, with Worcester Acute Hospitals NHS Trust joining in 2023.

The Foundation Group originally aimed to be a sustainable model for small to medium-sized trusts. Over time, each organisation has become the leader of integrated care in their 'place' within the two Integrated Care Systems covered by the trusts in the group – with GEH and SWFT taking their respective lead roles in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Working together in this innovative NHS governance model has brought significant benefits for both patients and the workforce by sharing best practice across the four individual organisations - improving our outpatient productivity, tackling long waits for care and improving urgent care patient flow.

Joint working crystallises around a common strategy and ‘big moves’ that set a vision for our future – focussing on flexible employment, creating resilience in domiciliary care, sustainability, preventing ill health and working with partners and using technology to provide appropriate care at home.

Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)

Coventry and Warwickshire ICB is responsible for planning and commissioning NHS for our local population, ensuring high-quality, equitable care for over one million residents. Through collaboration with health, care, and voluntary sector partners, we are committed to improving health outcomes, tackling inequalities, enhancing productivity, and supporting broader social and economic development.

Our Strategy and Priorities

Our Integrated Care Strategy sets out a clear vision: to enable people to start well, live well, and age well, with a strong focus on prevention, integration, and reducing inequalities. This strategy is built around:

Three Strategic Priorities

1. Prioritising prevention and improving future health outcomes through tackling health inequalities

2. Improving access to health and care services and increasing trust and confidence

3. Tackling immediate system pressures and improving resilience

Key Enablers for Transformation

Delivering this ambitious strategy requires strong foundations. We are focusing on:

• Finance – Aligning resources to drive prevention and address inequalities.

• Digital, Data, and Technology – Harnessing innovation for improved decision-making and patient outcomes.

• Public Estates and Facilities – Optimising physical spaces to support integrated care.

• Performance and Assurance – Strengthening system-wide monitoring and accountability.

• Quality Improvement – Embedding patient safety, evidence-based care, and workforce development.

• Transformation and Innovation – Driving change through collaborative, future-focused approaches.

Health Innovation West Midlands (HIWM)

Health Innovation West Midlands (HIWM) is one of 15 health innovation networks funded by NHS England, whose role is to find, test and accelerate the adoption and spread of innovative ideas and technologies with the potential to transform health and social care.

They convene collaborations with academia, industry, health care providers, commissioners and citizens to support continuous improvement of the health and wealth of the population. As well as enabling innovation and improvement in the West Midlands, HIWM works with the national Health Innovation Network to create impact nationally and internationally.