Yorkshire and the Humber · England
Leeds & West Yorkshire
Work on health data at population scale, in a city with the Dales behind it.
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The place
Leeds holds an unusual concentration of national health organisations, health data infrastructure and medical technology manufacturing, sitting next to a financial and legal services base large enough to fund and regulate what the health side builds.
The city itself is Victorian, commercial and quietly confident, with arcades, a serious food scene and the Yorkshire Dales close enough to be a normal Saturday rather than a holiday.
- Victorian commercial grandeur and glass arcades
- A working financial and legal centre outside London
- Health institutions clustered around the centre
- The Dales and the moors within an hour
- A large, young student population
Why Leeds & West Yorkshire?
Work on health data at population scale, in a city with the Dales behind it.
- A national concentration of health data and digital health organisations in one city.
- Medical technology manufacture and device development alongside the data work.
- A financial and professional services base that understands regulated products.
- Costs well below London for both housing and workspace.
- The Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors and the coast all within reach of a weekend.
Leeds is not a deep-tech hardware city. If your work is physical rather than digital, Sheffield or Manchester may suit it better.
What's happening here
Britain is building, and a lot of it is here.
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Leeds hosts national health digital and data organisations alongside its teaching hospitals
The city holds one of the largest concentrations of health innovation organisations outside London.
DSIT: UK innovation clusters map ↗
What this place is good at
Strengths, from the canonical record.
- Health data and digital health
- Medical technology and devices
- Financial and professional services technology
- Data science research
- Life Sciences
- Digital Technologies
- Financial Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Creative Industries
DSIT cluster data records Leeds among the largest health innovation clusters outside London.