North East England Excelling in health and life sciences PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING • CLINICAL RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION RESPONDING TO AN AGEING POPULATION nelep.co.uk To Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen Port of Berwick Berwick-upon-Tweed To Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen Holy Island A1 Port of Berwick Farne Berwick-upon-Tweed Islands Wooler Holy Island A1 Farne Islands Alnwick Wooler To Scotland A697 Northumberland Coquet National Park Rothbury A1 Island A68 Alnwick Ashington Morpeth Bellingham A696 To Scotland A697 Port of Blyth A68 A189 Northumberland Coquet Newcastle Cramlington National Park Rothbury A1 Island Airport Whitley Bay A68 North Shields Port of Tyne NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE South Shields A69 A69 To Carlisle, Hexham Manchester Haltwhistle Blaydon A1 SUNDERLAND GATESHEAD Port of Sunderland A692 A68 Washington Ashington Consett A693 Chester-le- Morpeth Street A690 Seaham Harbour Bellingham A1 (M) A691 A696 Port of Blyth A68 A19 A189 DURHAM Newcastle Cramlington Airport A68 Wingate Whitley Bay Spennymoor Bishop North Shields Auckland Sedgefield Port of Tyne NEWCASTLE To Hartlepool South Shields Newton and Middlesbrough UPON TYNE Aycliffe A69 A69 To Carlisle, Hexham Manchester Haltwhistle Blaydon A688 A1 SUNDERLAND GATESHEAD Port of SunderlandBarnard To York, Castle Leeds, A692 A68 London, Washington Midlands ConsettNorthA693 East Local Enterprise area The North East has a diverse Chester-le- Street A690 Seaham Harbour A1 (M) and vibrant clustering of life A691 sciences, manufacturing and To Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen A19 Port of Berwick health services. I believe that DURHAM Berwick-upon-Tweed the work that is being done in Principal rail links A68 Wingate the North East can support more Spennymoor Holy Island Contents A1 Bishop Tyne & Wear Metro growth in the region and make a Auckland Sedgefield Farne Islands strong contribution to a wider To Hartlepool NewtonLEP boundary and Middlesbrough Aycliffe Wooler UK initiative to promote research collaboration, Motorway A688 partnership and investment Key routes globally as part of the Barnard To York, Castle Leeds, Alnwick Introduction 02 Government’s Life Sciences London, MidlandsEnterprise Zones To Scotland A697 Industrial Strategy. Northumberland Coquet National Park Rothbury A1 Island Ports A68 What the data tells us about the sector 04 Airports Ashington Morpeth World class science and research across four universities 06 Bellingham A696 Port of Blyth A68 A189 Newcastle Cramlington Principal rail links Airport Whitley Bay North Shields The North East health and life sciences ecosystem 06 Port of Tyne NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE South Shields A69 Tyne & Wear Metro A69 To Carlisle, Hexham Manchester Haltwhistle Blaydon • An outstanding and innovation-driven healthcare system A1 SUNDERLAND GATESHEAD Port of Sunderland A692 A68 with a strong and high-performing clinical trials community 10 LEP boundary Washington Consett A693 Chester-le- Street A690 Seaham Harbour A1 (M) • Globally focused pharmaceutical manufacturing 12 Motorway A691 A19 DURHAM • A vibrant and effective innovation environmen 14 A68 Wingate Key routes Spennymoor Bishop • Research and innovation site 17 Auckland Sedgefield To Hartlepool Newton and Middlesbrough Enterprise Zones Aycliffe A688 John Bell GBE, FRS, FMedSci Barnard To York, A broad and high-quality education offer 18 Ports Castle Leeds, London, Midlands Regius Professor of Medicine, Airports University of Oxford. Chairman, A mature and accessible business support ecosystem 20 Office for the Strategic Coordination of Health Research. Sponsor of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy, a Government White Paper. Principal rail links Tyne & Wear Metro Page | 01 LEP boundary Motorway Key routes Enterprise Zones Ports Airports North East England: A unique environment for health and life sciences and medicines manufacturing. We have excellence in quality of care, health innovation, working with companies and ageing. Through the health and life sciences working group, we bring together the North Global health services and markets A thriving life science community with: • A diverse range of business East’s health, life sciences are being shaped by rapid models, international links and a research and manufacturing development of health care • World leading health research strong export performance as community. We are technologies, resulting in a shift and outstanding NHS healthcare they respond proactively to a committed to ensuring that towards more personalised organisations, with a record of challenging global outlook our unique assets continue to treatments and the need to respond health innovation and working flourish and deliver real to the health and social care with companies • Direct links to the UK Catapult economic and social impact. Network, indirectly through the A key part of this mission is to implications of an ageing population. • A vibrant SME base in medical The North East of England has a Centre for Process Innovation project our strengths to the technologies including precision which operates a number of noted rest of the UK and beyond, unique combination of assets, medicine and medical technologies, capabilities and networks that can innovation facilities in the region. and to identify opportunities and testing and clinical trials for collaboration and support the delivery of the UK’s An internationally recognised response to this challenge. • Centres of excellence in precision investment which can enable specialism in ageing and the strengthening of our medicine, digital health, advanced age-related diseases: Our key assets and areas therapies and biopharma contribution to global health of opportunity manufacturing. • Newcastle is a globally recognised and national prosperity. Our regions life scientists and hub for the development of medical An established pharmaceuticals science and social research in researchers, innovative businesses, manufacturing sector: medicines manufacturers and response to the challenges and health care professionals, are • An established, globally opportunities of ageing populations contributing to the improvement competitive sector including 15 • The Newcastle campus for ageing of global health, creating jobs and pharmaceutical manufacturers and vitality is Europe’s largest generating wealth for the region with deep sector knowledge and multidisciplinary site focused on and the UK. We have: a global outlook ageing and the National Innovation Centre for Ageing will drive innovation delivery in this area. Working together through the health Our assets are located within a well- and life sciences working group. networked environment which includes key sites and facilities dedicated to the Partners in the region are working closely development of health and life sciences Michael Whitaker together, supported by the North East sectors. We have a number of business Local Enterprise Partnership, to identify clusters and networks and a strong Member of North East LEP education offer in both health and innovation board and chair of the North East LEP life sciences and deliver opportunities to support associated sciences. working group growth and employment in the region. Page | 03 The North East of England’s What the data tells us about the sector What does the health and life science sector look like? immense capability in life sciences is reflected in the growth of this sector and its psychology, psychiatry and The map below shows the clustering of North East health and life sciences businesses by employment numbers. substantial offer for business. Pharmaceuticals manufacturing neuroscience and 19% in clinical • The manufacture of pharmaceutical medicine2. 47% of the research in The region is a world leader in products contributed £590 million to biological sciences undertaken by clinical research which can North East Gross Value Added in Newcastle University is rated as 4* boast national leadership in 2016, with a location quotient of 1.6. ageing and smart data. Its rich Pharmaceuticals is one of the highest • The Witty Review3 rated North asset base includes expertise Life Science & Healthcare: productivity sectors globally. The East universities in the top 20 Manufacture of Basic Pharmaceutical Products in precision medicine, rare 1 for research publications for 11 and Pharmaceutical Preparations North East business base includes : Manufacture of Medical and Dental Instruments and Supplies disease and cancer as well as subjects including life sciences Scientific Research and Development pathology and diagnostics. It is and regenerative medicine home to outstanding research centres including the National 71 companies in • Between 2007 and 2017, North East Institute of Health Research biopharma, employing 4, 001 organisations secured funding of Total Employment by Postcode: people and a turnover of £594 m £94 million from the Biotechnology Alnwick (NIHR) Innovation Observatory, >500 the National Innovation Centre and Biological Sciences Research 250-500 Council and £118 million from the 100-249 for Ageing, the National 50-99 Medical Research Council 25-49 Innovation Centre for Data, <25 Newcastle and Durham 91 companies in • North East Health Trusts are UK universities and nationally Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Cramlington & Morpeth medtech, employing 2,570 leading for their involvement in leading NHS teaching trusts. people and a turnover of £505 m clinical research, with Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust being ranked Newcastle - Gateshead first for the last six years. North & South Shields • In the wider life sciences