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HDR UK Better Care South-West Partnership

In April 2020 we, with colleagues in the Universities of Bristol, Bath and Exeter (representing ARC South West Peninsula), were successful in a £1.2 million bid to Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) to become a Better Care Partnership, and new site of HDR UK.

The HDR UK Better Care South-West Partnership is built around the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) system-wide dataset, which includes the integrated health and social care records of a million citizens.

Our Better Care Partnership encompasses four projects based on the system-wide dataset:

  • predicting patient flow into and subsequent patient outcomes in critical care
  • antimicrobial stewardship in primary and secondary care
  • optimising the flow of patients between health and social care
  • optimising the use of elective surgery capacity, particularly after disruptions

Inevitably all these projects have now pivoted towards the response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are continuing to work with colleagues in the BNSSG Healthier Together Integrated Care System and the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre to develop the system-wide dataset and extend its reach across the West.