Set against a backdrop of strained health and care services with tightening budgets, shifting the focus to preventing ill and worsening health has become critical. Leeds’ outstanding track record in developing new and effective approaches to such prevention repeatedly attracts national and international acclaim, and it continues to raise the bar. Here, we explore how Leeds’ research is further refining and advancing care to manage and mitigate the risks associated with one of the most widespread health challenges – frailty.

In our latest spotlight features, we dig deeper into this autumn’s healthtech trade mission to the US to hear from some of the innovative businesses who joined the trip. Here, Professor Paul Gately, CEO of Morelife and visiting Professor of Exercise and Obesity at Leeds Beckett University, reveals how a novel approach to tackling obesity is catalysing real change at scale for individuals, health systems and society - in the UK and beyond.

In our latest spotlight features, we focus on market-leading health industry innovators from our city and region who joined the recent West Yorkshire healthtech trade mission to the US. We hear how they’ve achieved huge success, how they’re benefiting people around the world and about their insights into the US healthcare markets following the recent trip. In part one, we hear from a local company whose innovations are helping millions of people across the UK and beyond, to manage the side effects one of the most prevalent and hardest health challenges of our time: cancer.