UK Healthcare Centres to Compete Internationally

Following a peer review by an international panel of experts, the Health

Secretary Alan Johnson announced the successful Academic Health Science

Centres (AHSCs). The centres including Imperial College, London are

partnerships between world-class Universities and leading NHS organisations,

and have been recognised as having the potential to compete globally with

established centres such as those in the United States, Canada, Singapore,

Sweden and the Netherlands.



This is another step towards placing UK healthcare expertise as a leader on

the international stage.



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