PIONEER is proud to work with both national and regional partners. We are always looking for more like-minded organisations or companies to join us or work with us. Please contact us for more information.
Our Main Partners
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is Data Controller for PIONEER. UHB is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services and specialist care to a Birmingham population of 2.6M across four hospital sites in addition to specialist regional and supra-regional services. The Trust has over two million patient visits each year, the largest single site critical care unit in Europe and is a Global Digital Exemplar, with nationally recognised strengths in design and deployment of novel regional and supra-regional health data systems to support care and research.
The University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (UoB) is a founding partner of PIONEER. UoB is one of the world’s top 100 institutions, providing innovative solutions to the challenges we face in Birmingham, the West Midlands region and across the globe. PIONEER aligns closely with the Colleges of Medicine and Health, Engineering and Physical Science, utilising expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, medical image interpretation and advanced statistics to extract hard-to access data, develop, test and validate algorithms and build our sandbox of a real, live hospital system.
The West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
The West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS) is the second-largest ambulance service and the first university ambulance trust in the UK. The Trust serves a population of 5.6 million people covering an area of 13,000km2, receives 1,400,000 calls for medical care a year and is one of the few trusts to have a fully electronic care record. WMAS is a founding partner of PIONEER, and provides community to hospital care pathway data for research and innovation.
Our Project Partners
Birmingham Health Partners
Birmingham Health Partners (BHP) is a strategic alliance between regional organisations, sharing the common goal of achieving health and economic impact through the purposeful use of knowledge and expertise. BHP members include the University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (BWC), Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Health Innovation West Midlands, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Aston University.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), situated in the heart of London, is one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom and provides first-class acute and specialist services. It comprises of ten hospital sites.
The Trust employs approximately 8,180 staff. Each year its hospitals treat over 500,000 outpatients’ appointments and admit over 100,000 patients. In partnership with University College London, UCLH has major research activities as part of the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Partners academic health science centre. Its hospitals are also major teaching centres and offer training for nurses, doctors and other health care professionals.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham Community Health care NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) provides core community health services for more than one million people in Birmingham and a range of specialist rehabilitation and dental services for the 6.5 million people across the wider West Midlands region. BCHC focuses on delivering safe, high-quality care, working across a range of locations including people’s own homes, community clinics and hospital settings. BCHC actively works in integrated style with a range of partner organisations across health and social care and promotes equitable access for all to NHS services.
The Society for Acute Medicine
The Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) is the national representative body for staff caring for medical patients in the acute hospital setting. SAM facilitates the development of clinical standards for AMU, promotes the creation of appropriate environments for acute medicine assessments and admissions and shares best practice across the speciality. PIONEER hosts the annual SAM Benchmarking audit data, enabling data from more than 150 acute care Trusts across all four nations to be used for research.
