Shelford Group

The Shelford Group represents ten of the leading NHS multi-specialty academic healthcare centres in England. Founded in 2011, the Group seeks to share best practice and constructively engage with government, Parliament and industry.

The current Chair is Sir Mike Deegan, Chief Executive of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Membership

The member organisations are:

Key Facts

The Shelford Group provide high quality health services worth nearly £10bn p.a., which is equivalent to 10% of the whole NHS England budget and over 13% of NHS providers.
About one third of the Group's aggregate income is for specialised services and the Group provide nearly one quarter of all specialised services commissioned by NHS England.
They employ over 100,000 NHS staff, including 15,000 doctors and dentists, and 40,000 nurses, midwives and health visitors.
The Group treats millions of patients each year, with the member trusts seeing over 1.6 million A&E attendances in 2015.
The Group have over 190,000 Foundation Trust members.
Between them, the Group's ten Chief Executives have over 150 years of CEO experience.
The Group are national and international hubs of research, education and innovation, providing some of the most complex and specialised healthcare in the world.
In aggregate, they have earned £555m of research funding for five years from 2017 from the National Institute of Health Research, which is over two thirds of the total funding nationally.
The Shelford trusts are all Biomedical Research Centres, in partnership with their universities, and include the top four BRCs in the country.
Shelford trusts are 8 of the 13 NHS Genomic Medicine Centres in England, leading the way to deliver the 100,000 Genome Project.

External links

Shelford Group website