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Harrogate hospital trust opens research and innovation hub

by Calvin Robinson Chief Reporter

| 07 May, 2025
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David Skaith, Mayor of York and North Yorkshire officially opens Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust’s new Healthcare Innovation Hub.

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Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust has opened a new research and innovation hub in Knaresborough.

The trust, which also runs Harrogate District Hospital and Ripon Community Hospital, unveiled the hub at St James Business Park.

The site has been created solely for innovation and research, where significant enhancements in healthcare services can be identified, developed, tested and introduced.

The trust said it already uses research and innovation to improve its services, such as introducing the Harrogate Post Procedure Patient Innovation (HaPPi) project, where personalised videos recorded by surgeons are used to communicate with patients who are still in post-procedure recovery.

Meanwhile, Harrogate hospital has also used artificial intelligence software to help with the detection of bone fractures, chest x-rays and to diagnose lung cancer.

David Skaith, mayor of York and North Yorkshire, opened the site at Knaresborough.

He said:

This is an exciting step forward for Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust’s ambition to be a leading trust for innovation in healthcare.

The innovation team have already made great strides, but this will make the NHS more accessible than ever. It will turbocharge this great work and create better outcomes for patients.

York and North Yorkshire has the knowledge, research and innovative strengths to drive growth. Innovation is key to our work – through my £5 million Business Innovation Fund we want to push projects just like this further and faster.

Jonathan Coulter, chief executive of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, said:

As an organisation, we are focused on ensuring the quality of our services.

We know there are many improvements we can make through developing new ways of working and introducing new forms of treatment. The Healthcare Innovation Hub is a clear indication of our intentions to drive healthcare development so that we can provide the best possible healthcare service.

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