Our purpose and values

Our purpose  

We are a health innovation partnership. Our mission is to help five million people from North London to the Essex coast live longer, healthier lives. We focus on the health challenges that have the biggest impact on the people most in need. Our work aims to prevent people from becoming ill, give them quicker access to care and transform the quality of their treatment.  

We solve our biggest health challenges  

We use data to understand the health and care needs of our communities, and then we discover, source, develop, implement and evaluate health innovations to change lives for the better. 

Working as a partnership, we mobilise healthcare professionals, researchers, patients, industry and innovators to tackle the biggest health challenges facing our communities. Our focus is on improving outcomes in cardiovascular health, cancer detection, adolescent mental health, dementia, respiratory disease and vision loss.  

Our local diversity inspires globally significant discovery  

Our region is home to some of the most diverse communities in Europe, as well as pioneers of world-leading clinical research, treatments and technologies. By bringing together insights from people with a vast array of experience, knowledge and ideas, we act upon today’s healthcare needs and anticipate those of the future. The diversity of our population also drives us to ensure that our solutions are tailored to wide range of needs and have impact across the UK and globally. 

We develop health and care fit for the future 

We are using our collective expertise to support the development of the healthcare systems of the future. Through innovation and the use of modern technology we can reduce our healthcare carbon footprint and create more effective ways of delivering care through large scale, healthcare system design.  

Together, we enable lasting change 

We believe large and complex health challenges can only be addressed through partnership. It’s through our joint insights and action that we can drive life-changing innovation to improve the health and care of our communities, both today and for the long-term.  

Our values  

Partnership 

By bringing together expertise from across our health innovation partnership we drive research and innovation to co-create, test and implement solutions to the biggest health challenges our communities are experiencing. 

Pace 

Our timelines for bringing novel and impactful solutions into practice are ambitious, and we hold ourselves to account on delivery. We want to ensure any initiatives that can improve health and care for those who need it most are delivered to them rapidly. 

People  

Patients and communities are valuable partners in our work. We rely on their insights to guide our work and inform how we do it. We work together to transform our research and ideas into lasting health improvement. 

Population 

Our work is directed, driven and shaped by the health needs of our diverse local communities. We tailor how we work to ensure we are reaching and supporting those people who are most in need.