About us

The Shelford Group is a collaboration between ten of the largest teaching and research NHS hospital trusts in England. 

  

These ten NHS trusts provide a comprehensive range of services from community care for local populations, to highly specialised care for patients nationwide. Together they account for over £19 billion of the NHS budget, have more than 20 million contacts with patients per year, employ over 180,000 staff and account for almost two thirds of the country’s clinical research infrastructure.

John Radcliffe Hospital
Formed in 2011, the Shelford Group works with national leaders to inform health. life science and social care policy – connecting policy makers with the frontline NHS. Collectively its members are strategically significant to the NHS nationally, the UK’s life sciences industry and the wider UK economy. They are dedicated to excellence in clinical research, education and patient care. 

Member trusts run local NHS hospitals for their immediate communities and are also specialist centres of excellence for patients from further afield with complex medical conditions such as rare cancers and genetic disorders. They are also centres of academic excellence, training the healthcare workforce of the future. Shelford Group trusts are ‘anchor’ institutions for their regions – providing a major source of employment, creating demand for goods and services offered by UK businesses and generating economic growth through local innovation and life sciences communities.

They are also system leaders in the provision of integrated health and social care, actively developing integrated care systems, leading sustainability and transformation partnerships, hospital groups and speciality networks across their regions. 

View our ten Shelford Trust member organisations.

We have three modes of operating, through which we aim to create value for members and the wider health system:

  • Mutual learning: Supportinc collaboration to share best practice within the network and the wider NHS.
  • Policy development: Navigating and shaping the external environment to maximise the positive contribution Shelford Group Trusts can make to the health system including the “three shifts” of sickness/prevention, hospital/community and analogue/digital. 
  • System leadership: Building partnerships within healthcare, life sciences, academia and government, developing our role as anchor institutions and giving back to the NHS. 

The Group is led by its member chief executives and has active sub-groups for chief nurses, medical directors, finance directors and other executives. In addition, a spectrum of professional groups provide a valuable source of expertise across chief pharmacists, allied health professionals and research and development communities.

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