Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) North
Director
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, The University of Liverpool and Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Associate Directors
Professor Iain Buchan, Chair in Public Health and Clinical Informatics, University of Liverpool
Professor Andy Clegg, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Leeds and Bradford Royal Infirmary
Monica Jones, Chief Data Officer DATA-CAN, University of Leeds
Graham King, Chief Information Officer, Newcastle upon Tyne University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Jo Knight, Professor of Applied Data Science, Lancaster University Medical School, Co-Director, Data Science Institute
Professor Suzanne Mason, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Sheffield and Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Tjeerd van Staa, Professor of Health eResearch, University of Manchester
Coordinating Organisation
The University of Liverpool
Associate Organisations
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
- Lancaster University
- The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- University of Leeds
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust
- University of Manchester
- Northern Health Science Alliance
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts
- Newcastle University
- Salford Royal Foundation Trust
- University of Sheffield
- South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System
- Wirral University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Summary
The Northern Better Care Partnership brings together world-class universities, digitally-enabled NHS institutions and academic health science systems. It serves over 16 million people in the North where the rates of poverty, morbidity, premature mortality and poorer clinical outcomes are higher than in other regions.
The Partnership will initially focus on three projects towards better care for elderly people living with frailty. Each project will employ extensive, available data and advanced analytical techniques to gain actionable insights for optimising delivery of care. They will use early findings to expand the research and implementation, firstly across other Northern cities, in collaboration with the Northern Health Science Alliance and the four Academic Health Science Networks, and subsequently UK-wide.

Development of a learning system to optimise anticholinergic medication prescribing for old...
Overview This project aims to develop a tool to help doctors and pharmacists review a patient’s broader medical history to allow more appropriate prescribing of anticholinergic medications. This...

Learning Care Homes: Continuous improvement of structured referrals
This project aims to evaluate and improve a Digital Care Homes app to support decision-making by care home and community staff when a care home resident becomes unwell. This process will allow the...

Better antibiotic prescribing in frail elderly people with polypharmacy
This project aims to use an advanced analytics approach to support doctors in deciding when to prescribe antibiotics to frail elderly patients, avoiding the adverse side effects of inappropriate...