Partnership evaluation report published

This report presents the findings of a 9-month Evaluation of the Strategic Partnership between the University of Reading (UoR) and the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RBFT).

The report describes a Partnership that has thrived in its early stages of development from 2018-24. In its current form, the Partnership comprises 5 pillars of strategic activity, spanning Research, Education, Advanced Analytics, Commercialisation and Estate. Through its broad-based initiatives to stimulate collaboration, a wide portfolio of early-stage collaborative links has been initiated. Collaboration has predominantly developed in the research pillar, but with elements of collaboration across all pillars to varying degrees.

Based on the findings of the Evaluation, this report identified a series of recommendations that will facilitate maturing of the Partnership and will drive an upturn in the pace of change and delivery. The recommendations describe a dual approach, in which the main emphasis should be to build depth that benefits patients in Areas of Shared Focus that have emerged to date, whilst in parallel maintaining a scaled-back element of support for new opportunities to emerge and mature as the potential focal points for the future.

We’ll be officially launching the new direction of the Partnership at our event on the 2nd July – be sure to register your space!

With thanks to Dr. Kate Hough, for executing this work.