READ MORE: Westlakes Medical School tackling Cumbria “under-doctored”<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n Directors approved a proposal to form an Education and Research Sub-Committee which will “bridge the gap” between Cumbria’s medical schools and the hospital trust that their graduates may ultimately work for.\n<\/p>\n
\n Executive Medical Director, Doctor Adrian Clements said: “I’m very supportive of it, I think it’s a new direction for the organisation, becoming a different healthcare organisation that’s integrated into the medical schools and the research hub.\n<\/p>\n
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Doctor Adrian Clements, Executive Medical Director at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust(Image: NCIC)\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “We need to move to that point, we need to get the board to be sighted on all those issues and supportive of those issues and it needs the weight of a board sub-committee to do that.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Jonathan Weber welcomed the move, both as a board member and a lecturer at University of Cumbria.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “I think that your two major academic partners, which is Imperial College and University of Cumbria, should both be members of this committee.”\n<\/p>\n
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The meeting of directors at the Cumberland Infirmary boardroom in Carlisle(Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n University of Cumbria’s new medical school was developed in-partnership with Imperial College London and is funded by the Pears Foundation.\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Weber said that the committee would be “about liaison as much as it is about strategy.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Certainly in my experience in setting up these committees, they are invaluable in assisting both organisations to align their strategies, to mutual benefit.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Weber is also a Co-Director of the Research Hub based at the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mark Cullinan said: “Isn’t it an exciting time to be introducing a new committee to do this?\n<\/p>\n
\n “And the impact that this can have, not only on our organisation but the population of Cumbria generally…I think it’s fantastic.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The newly established committee will report directly to NCIC’s Board of Directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Directors of North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust met at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle last week,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-163011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}