UCL Partners is a collaboration between five of Britain’s world-renowned medical research centres and hospitals.
By bringing together world-class researchers and clinicians, our aim is to create Europe’s strongest academic health science partnership, focused on preventing and treating major diseases that affect the populations in London, the UK and worldwide.
Our focus is on cutting edge research driven by patients and their needs, and on how we roll out treatments that give the greatest benefit to the greatest number, while making our health services more efficient and affordable.
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The current list of UCLP themes and their objectives is as follows:
- Develop a provider network to deliver integrated, patient-focused care pathways, with brain cancer as the first exemplar
- Reduce mortality and morbidity by promoting early diagnosis
- Increase availability of clinical trials of innovative cancer treatments
- Reduce mortality and morbidity from stroke
- Improve outcomes for neurosurgical and neuro-oncology patients
- Improve outcomes for dementia and other degenerative conditions of the central nervous system
- Prevention of premature cardiovascular disease
- Congenital heart disease: prevention, integrated paediatric to adulthood care; studies to inform and improve outcomes
- Improve outcomes for major cardiac events - acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular surgery
- Develop and implement new genetic tests for auto-immune diseases and immunodeficiency
- Develop and implement new treatments for immunodeficiency and opportunistic infections
- Improve outcomes for patients requiring transplantation
- Reduce mortality and morbidity caused by imported infection
- Integrated model of care for HIV and large-scale studies of new agents
- Improved management and outcomes of chronic glaucoma in the community using innovative new technology and education
- Tackling obesity in under-19-year-olds
- Improve care for juvenile diabetes
(specific issues for diabetes, and exemplar model of care for chronic diseases - patient empowerment via patient-controlled case record and management systems)
- Improve maternity care (outcomes for mother and baby, satisfaction and efficiency)
- Focus R&D on major determinants of prematurity and pre-eclampsia
- Improved STI screening and care of sexual health closer to home; reduce teenage pregnancy by switching to more effective methods, especially intrauterine devices