Strategy

Research and Development (R&D) are fundamental components of delivering clinical and public health excellence – they comprise the engine of innovation

There are several important assets for world class research in Salford, not the least of which is our people – the local population and our community of researchers.

Despite the real or perceived barriers to research there is real enthusiasm to succeed.

Our five year vision is that :-

• Research and Development will inform and underpin excellent clinical and public health services through world class research across the Salford Health Economy, MAHSC partners and beyond.
• Research and Development will be core business for SPCT and SRFT, inextricably intertwined with quality, clinical effectiveness and world class commissioning.
• Clinicians in all settings, including General Practice, will support innovative ways of improving health and healthcare for their patients. We will strengthen the research culture across the spectrum of health and healthcare so as to enable truly comprehensive, translational research.
• We will inspire the population of Salford to join in the research effort as citizen scientists who understand the need to, are motivated to take part in, and are fully engaged with, clinical research. The potential benefits to local communities and their children will be self-evident.
• North West e-Health will be internationally renowned for excellent infrastructure and methodological scholarship underpinning population-based health sciences. The e-Lab will give researchers access to linked data (including images), computation and information resources, and a community of expertise. The expertise include scholars and consultants in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics and Health Economics.