Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) is a digital health hub that aims to address the unmet health and care needs of populations in the North East and North Cumbria region of the UK by facilitating responsible cross-sector research, innovation, and training.
We are a consortium uniting:
We take a people-centred approach and are committed to humanising health-tech by championing equity, participation, and investment across the region. We practice participant-led user research and evaluation of tools and resources to strive for the design of useable and useful technologies and services.
Our goal is to establish NortHFutures as a pioneering ecosystem working across job sectors that empowers people to engage and lead in digital health and health-tech initiatives.
We are working with the VCSE organisation Connected Voice to deliver a series of three training sessions, aimed at cross-sector participants in early stages of research projects and research bid development. The three sessions are aimed at participants in all sectors, levels of seniority, and job roles, and will be
This September, we were joined in Newcastle upon Tyne by 33 participants of the Digital Health and Care Summer School. Attendees from across the UK and disciplines came together for three days of discussions on the effective and innovative use of digital technologies in the health and care sector. The
The UK has an urgent need for new health data scientists – it’s a rapidly expanding field with the recognised potential to transform the future of health and care for all, and health data science should serve and reflect the needs of the entire UK population. Once again, NortHFutures is
