Torbay Hospital is 1 of 48 Trusts nationally that have been awarded funding to build a new state of the art hospital which supports the people of Torbay and South Devon. In order to understand what ‘building a brighter future’ looks like, Dr Joanne Watson in collaboration with the University of Plymouth are undertaking a 24 month research project to look in detail how research informs the design of the new hospital buildings and care delivered from them as well as detailed research on 2 key pathways – frailty/older people and orthopaedics.
This work build from the successful integrated care study which TMRF funded, using innovative research methods and embedding researchers into the Trust.