Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Leeds Teaching Hospitals' Innovation Pop Up is making it easier for industry and healthcare to work together to develop new ways to improve patient care. It provides a front door for innovators to collaborate with clinicians and offers support and guidanc

This National Falls Awareness Week 22-25 September, we raised awareness of the work we are doing in our hospitals around falls prevention. The risk of a fall increases with age, and for older adults this can lead to serious harm and injury. The wrong shoe

To mark this year's World Cancer Research Day we're taking a look back at some of the cancer breakthroughs, innovations, and new treatments that our clinicians and partners have pioneered here at the Trust. World-leading clinical trials Our teams have bee

On World Cancer Research Day 2026 we're looking back at one of the ways that Leeds Teaching Hospitals has embedded research into patient care, potentially transforming the way that patients with early-stage rectal cancer are treated. Results from the inte

The works began last summer to build a relaxing and peaceful outdoor space. Colleagues could spend a little time to relax here during their busy day. Since then, there have been regular wellbeing workshops and two Gardening Club sessions each month. A ser

The event will be held at the Seminar Rooms, Ground Floor, Gledhow Wing, St James's University Hospital. The AGM will bring together members of the Trust Board to share updates on the highlights, challenges and improvements of the year April 2025 to March

The project is being supported with £20 million of national funding to increase access to vital tests for patients across Leeds. The expansion will deliver new facilities including two MRI scanners, expanded phlebotomy services, and additional treatment r

CHORAL (Child Health Outcomes Research at Leeds) has announced Professor Niina Kolehmainen as its first clinical academic health and care professions' chair. Professor Kolehmainen brings more than two decades of experience spanning clinical practice, rese

Two consultants from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have been awarded prestigious national research leadership prizes. Dr Louise Savic, a Consultant in Anaesthesia, has been awarded one of 20 NIHR20 Rising Research Leaders prizes. Dr Caroline Thomas i

Lung cancer is the biggest cause of cancer-based deaths in Yorkshire, with deaths double those of breast and prostate cancer. Thanks to a pioneering testing programme, more people in Leeds are benefiting from earlier detection of lung cancer, increasing t