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Bring organisations together around shared health and care challenges.
Health innovation and partnership in Staffordshire and the North Midlands
Connecting partners to improve health and care through research and innovation.
Keele Health Partners brings together health, academic, community, and business partners to turn expertise, ideas, and research into practical solutions that improve lives, strengthen services, and support regional growth.
- Businesses and sector organisations
- Health and care partners
- Community and public partners
About us
KHP is a partnership platform designed to move ideas into action.
Keele Health Partners (KHP) brings together health, academic, community, and business partners to tackle some of the biggest health challenges facing Staffordshire and the North Midlands. Our goal is simple: to turn great ideas and research into real-world solutions that make a positive difference to people’s lives.
Develop
Create opportunities for collaborative research, innovation, and funding.
Deliver
Support practical solutions that benefit patients, communities, and systems.
Why partner with KHP
A clearer route into meaningful collaboration.
KHP is designed to encourage collaboration from external organisations, including businesses, health and care providers, and wider sector partners. We want to create practical routes into joint work, not just describe our ambitions.
Research and innovation collaboration
Co-develop projects, programmes, and funding opportunities that respond to shared priorities.
Commercial and sector partnership
Explore opportunities with healthtech, life sciences, digital, and other sector-leading organisations.
Shared facilities and programme development
Build on Keele’s strengths to support scalable work with practical delivery potential.
Regional implementation
Connect innovation to regional health and care challenges so good ideas can move more quickly into practice.
Research areas
Priority areas aligned to real health and care challenges.
We are aligning our work with the NHS Long Term Plan, shifting care closer to home, embracing digital technology, and focusing on prevention. These priority areas create the strongest opportunities for collaboration and impact.
Mental Health
Supporting mental wellbeing through research, digital tools, and community engagement. We want to create practical solutions that help people at every stage of life.
Life Sciences & Precision Medicine
Driving biomedical research, including neuroscience, pharmacology, and bioengineering, and turning discoveries into personalised, preventative care.
Healthy Ageing & Long-Term Conditions
Building on Keele’s expertise in musculoskeletal health and primary care to find better ways to support ageing populations and manage chronic conditions in community settings.
Technology, Digital Health & Data Innovation
Using technology, data, AI, and digital platforms to improve care, empower self-management, and free up clinical time while working with digital and regional innovation partners.
Our impact
What success looks like for Keele Health Partners.
By bringing together partners from a diverse range of backgrounds, KHP aims to make a stronger, broader contribution to the communities it serves. These five pillars define the impact we are working to achieve.
Equitable Access
Making sure the benefits of health and care research reach everyone in our communities.
Impactful Research & Innovation
Delivering high-quality, co-produced research which puts evidence-based innovation at the heart of care.
Accelerated Translation
Moving discoveries into practice quickly so they can be adopted across the system.
Workforce & Regional Prosperity
Developing skills, supporting clinical-academic careers, and helping to grow the local economy through health innovation.
Sustainable Commercial Partnerships
Building new collaboration through working with sector-leading organisations.
Public Partnerships
Working with people and communities, not just around them.
Public Partnerships will provide a dedicated route for involving people, communities, and lived experience in shaping KHP’s work. For now, this section signals how KHP intends to build collaboration that reflects the needs and experiences of the communities affected by health and care challenges.
Planned focus
- Community-informed research and innovation
- Co-production and inclusive engagement approaches
- Better routes for civic and VCSE collaboration
Training
Supporting workforce development and shared capability.
Training is another area for future expansion. For launch, this section signals an interest in building skills, supporting clinical-academic careers, and creating learning opportunities that help health innovation succeed across partner organisations.
Potential themes
- Professional development linked to innovation and research
- Cross-sector learning and partnership capability building
- Pathways that strengthen workforce confidence and regional prosperity
Our team
Leadership with a clear route into conversation.
KHP should feel approachable as well as credible. A named contact helps external organisations understand who to speak to and where a conversation can begin.
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Our partners
A visible partnership ecosystem.
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Health partner
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Academic partner
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Community partner
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Business partner
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Regional partner
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Innovation partner
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News
Related updates and developments.
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Health innovation collaboration announced across regional partners
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Digital health and prevention themes shape new programme discussions
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Start the conversation
Interested in collaboration, innovation, or partnership?
We welcome enquiries from businesses, organisations, health and care providers, community partners, and researchers who want to explore opportunities with KHP.
Contact us
Start a partnership enquiry.
If you would like to discuss research collaboration, innovation, public partnership, training, or commercial opportunities, please get in touch using the form.
Enquiry focus
Use the form to tell us a little about your organisation and the type of conversation you would like to start.