As most major cities across the UK showcase their various innovation campuses, hubs, centres of excellence and science parks, how do you scratch the surface and find the substance behind the sales pitch? What are the crucial differentiators and where does Leeds stand in all this? Our latest spotlight explores how transformational real estate developments signal a real opportunity in a city transforming health and care.

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.