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An NHS trust is an organisational unit within the National Health Services of England and Wales , generally serving either a geographical area or a specialised function (such as an ambulance service). In any particular location there may be several trusts involved in the different aspects of providing healthcare to the local population. As of April 2020 , there were altogether 217 trusts, and they employ around 800,000 of the NHS's 1.2 million staff.

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67-651: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS hospital trust in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England . The Trust was formed in April 1998 after the merger of two previous smaller NHS trusts to form one citywide organisation. The former trusts were United Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (based at Leeds General Infirmary ) and St James's & Seacroft University Hospitals NHS Trust (based at St James's University Hospital ). The Trust has an overall income of around £1.8 billion and provides local and specialist services for

134-512: A royal charter and act of Parliament in 1903, the then newly formed University of Liverpool began the fragmentation of the Victoria University by being the first member to gain independence. The University of Leeds soon followed suit and had been granted a royal charter as an independent body by King Edward VII by 1904. The Victoria University continued after the break-up of the group, with an amended constitution and renamed as

201-649: A duty to act on signals of poor performance on quality and safety data, and yet many of the papers presented to them have been found to be lacking good data visualisations. The High Court of Justice decided in December 2019 that NHS trusts were not charities for the purposes of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 , so they have to pay business rates at the full rate. A study by the University of Exeter in 2020 found that in 70 out of

268-582: A million pounds was allocated towards its development. The university has engaged in expansion since 2008, and has spent more than £300 million on new educational, research, residential and leisure facilities with a further £80 million being spent to improve current assets. The programme of this expansion constitutes one of the largest capital investment projects in British higher education. Works of public art on campus range from Eric Gill 's controversial 1923 World War I memorial Christ driving

335-542: A national basis, deal with NHS-wide issues. An example is NHS Blood and Transplant . University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Yorkshire College. It became part of

402-1047: A result of the Keogh Review the Trust was put into the highest risk category by the Care Quality Commission . In 2016, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was inspected and rated Good by the CQC. The Trust was highlighted by NHS England as having 3 of the 148 reported never events in the period from April to September 2013. The trust was one of five to benefit from a five-year, £12.5m programme announced by Jeremy Hunt in July 2015 to bring in Virginia Mason Medical Center to assist English hospitals using their clinical engagement and culture tools including

469-442: A university had for the cities of Liverpool and Manchester whilst the institutions were also unhappy with the practical difficulties posed by maintaining a federal arrangement across broad distances. The interests of the universities and respective cities in creating independent institutions was further spurred by the granting of a charter to the University of Birmingham in 1900 after lobbying from Joseph Chamberlain . Following

536-658: A way to turn a sleep apnoea machine into a ventilator to treat people with COVID-19.  The modification on a device known as a Nippy3 was a collaboration between clinical staff, engineers and physicists at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and academics and technologists at the University of Leeds.    The Leeds Cancer Research Centre is a partnership between the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and launched in July 2020. It brings together scientists and clinicians across discipline boundaries to deliver cancer research that ultimately improves patient outcomes. The Trust

603-640: Is also one of seven Centres of Excellence in a UK-wide network, RadNet, involved in radiotherapy research. Leeds Teaching Hospitals is part of the Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC) which embraces a network of nine NHS hospitals, seven universities and ten medical technology companies. NPIC aims to deploy digital pathology across hospitals in the North of England and will develop artificial intelligence tools to help diagnose cancer and other disease. In October 2013 as

670-427: Is approximately 1 mile south of the main campus. There are numerous bus routes which serve it. The proposed Leeds Supertram would have run past the campus. The currently proposed Leeds Trolleybus (northern line) will run past the campus, linking it with the city centre, Headingley and Lawnswood . The Leeds Inner Ring Road also lies close to the campus. The University of Leeds Conference Auditorium, located next to

737-626: Is housed in the renovated 19th-century buildings (known as the Maurice Keyworth Building), which used to belong to Leeds Grammar School on the Western side of the University of Leeds campus. The university have also constructed further modern buildings on the business school area of campus known as the Innovation Hub; costing £9.3 million. The building is a three-storey building of 4350 m (gross capacity), with

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804-423: Is located 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Leeds city centre and consists of a mixture of Gothic revival , art deco , brutalist and postmodern buildings, making it one of the most diverse university campuses in the country in terms of building styles and history. It is within walking distance of both the city centre and popular student neighbourhoods Hyde Park , Woodhouse , and Headingley . The main entrance to

871-535: Is one of the largest medical schools in Europe, with over 250 medical students being trained in each of the clinical years and over 1,000 teaching, research, technical and administrative staff. The school has centres of excellence split down into Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT), Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (LIHS), Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) and The Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine (LIMM). In 2010–11 university guides,

938-567: Is provided via external Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing facilities. In 2023, a total of 31 centrally managed IT study spaces were available for use. The IT Services Research Computing Team support University research communities with platforms and their use, consulting and training . There is a dedicated user facing documentation site with details of the University High Performance Computing facilities and how to use them. Many of

1005-615: The Bretton campus. Activities at Bretton were moved to the main university campus in the summer of 2007 (allowing all Bretton-based students to complete their studies there). There was substantial opposition to the closure by the Bretton students. The university's other satellite site, Manygates in Wakefield , also closed, but Lifelong Learning and Healthcare programmes are continuing on a new site next to Wakefield College . In May 2006,

1072-415: The Care Quality Commission . Board members are, from November 2014, subject to a fit and proper person test . All trust boards are required to have an audit committee consisting only of non-executive directors, on which the chair may not sit. This committee is entrusted not only with the supervision of financial audit , but of systems of corporate governance within the trust. Hospital board members have

1139-661: The Church of England . University College London was non-sectarian. The religious qualification ceased in the 1850s but the classics-based education continued at Oxford and Cambridge. The Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a general education that was progressive and pragmatic in nature as were the technical colleges of Germany and the ancient universities upon which they were modelled. The Yorkshire College of Science began by teaching experimental physics, mathematics, geology, mining, chemistry and biology, and soon became well known as an international centre for

1206-729: The Leeds University Union hosted a live edition of the Channel 4 News , with students, academics and economists expressing their reaction to the Browne Review , an independent review of Higher Education funding and student finance conducted by John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley . University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor and Russell Group chairman Michael Arthur participated, giving an academic perspective alongside current vice-chancellor of Kingston University and former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at

1273-587: The UCAS clearing process for 2010 admission, which matches undersubscribed courses to students who did not meet their firm or insurance choices. The university was one of nine Russell Group universities offering extremely limited places to "exceptional" students after the universities in Birmingham , Bristol , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Oxford declared they would not enter the process due to courses being full to capacity. On 12 October 2010, The Refectory of

1340-528: The Victoria University of Manchester (though "Victoria" was usually omitted from its name except in formal usage) until September 2004. On 1 October 2004 a merger with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology was enacted to form The University of Manchester . In December 2004, financial pressures forced the university's governing body (the Council) to decide to close

1407-673: The Yorkshire Cancer Research funded Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial. League table results released in July 2019 by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), showed that Leeds Teaching Hospitals was the 4th highest ranked NHS Trust for health research recruitment, recruiting 20,983 people in 2018/19. In 2020, a Clinical Research Facility (CRF) opened in the Bexley Wing at St James's Hospital. It provides dedicated space and facilities for

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1474-521: The 213 trusts all the board members were white. Overall BAME representation at board level was 8.9%. Medical directors of BAME ethnicity accounted for 19.4%, about the same as the overall percentage of BAME doctors. In September 2015 Jeremy Hunt was reported as saying "I think we do have too many trusts as independent organisations" in a context where mergers between trusts and the establishment of chains of hospitals were being discussed. Subsequently Simon Stevens made it clear that he did not expect

1541-547: The Brotherton Collection. It also contains a considerable number of medieval manuscripts. The extensive coin collection consists of 15,000 coins and medals with a wide chronological and geographical spread. The Feminist Archive North Collections are on deposit. These contain a material relating to women from 1969 to the present day. The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, the Treasures Gallery and

1608-699: The Chief Executive Maggie Boyle to resign in June 2013. It is the biggest provider of specialised services in England, which generated an income of £415.3 million in 2014/5. The Trust is planning significant development and investment across its hospital sites. This includes the building of two new hospitals on the Leeds General Infirmary site (a hospital for adults and one for children and young people) known as Hospitals of

1675-870: The English Literature Collections, the Leeds Russian Archive, the Liddle Collection , the Cookery Collection and its Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections . The repository contains William Shakespeare 's First Folio Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories. & Tragedies published in 1623. Special Collections also holds copies of the second, third and fourth folios. There is a copy of Sir Isaac Newton 's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica , first published 5 July 1687. Special Collections holds over 300 incunabula most of which are in

1742-541: The Future and a new Pathology laboratory at St James's Hospital serving hospitals in Leeds, West Yorkshire and Harrogate. The programme will also support the development of an "Innovation District" for Leeds, bringing together the Trust, the two Leeds Universities and Leeds City Council in sectors including precision medicine, digital health, data and new business. The trust leased office space for 250 staff at 2 Park Lane in

1809-495: The International Textile Collection are managed by Special Collections. IT Services support the University with a range of services targeted for use by different University communities. University Faculties, Schools and Institutes also provide computing facilities. Collectively these provide computational capability that can be used by staff, students and visitors. Additional computational capability

1876-517: The Leeds campus of the Victoria University had never barred women from its courses. However, it was not until special facilities were provided at the Day Training College in 1896 that women began enrolling in significant numbers. The first female student to begin a course at the university was Lilias Annie Clark, who studied Modern Literature and Education. In 1904 Leeds University wanted to encourage more women students. It decided to pat

1943-736: The Moneychangers from the Temple in the foyer of the Rupert Beckett Building to Simon Fujiwara 's 2015 9 metres (30 ft) A Spire outside the Laidlaw Library and Liliane Lijn 's 2019 Converse Column at the south east entrance to the campus. The university has a Public Art Strategy developed with the Contemporary Art Society . Gair Wood is located about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of

2010-765: The Patient Safety Alert System and electronic dashboard. In 2016, the Department of Health awarded funds to six healthcare trusts in England – the Scan4Safety demonstrator sites – to investigate how consistent use of point of care scanning might improve efficiency and safety within the NHS. Leeds Teaching Hospitals was one of the original demonstrator sites and has achieved savings of £84,411.07 per year on product recalls, with recall times falling from 8.33 days to less than 35 minutes. In April 2016 it

2077-751: The School of Mineral Engineering, the Brotherton Library and the Parkinson Building which are Grade II listed. In addition to the main campus, there was also a satellite location at Wakefield . Until the 2006–07 academic year, some courses were taught at the Bretton Hall campus in West Bretton . The site closed in summer 2007 after which the courses taught there were relocated to the main campus in Leeds. Leeds railway station

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2144-554: The Sports Hall, was once the original West Yorkshire Playhouse . It was refurbished in 2003 to become two lecture theatres; one for 320 and one for 550, making it the largest capacity facility on the university campus. The university's Muslim Prayer Room is located in the Conference Auditorium building and able to accommodate up to 300 people at any one time. The prayer room has undergone refurbishment after half

2211-739: The United Kingdom Keir Starmer , former Home and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw , former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi , Piers Sellers ( NASA astronaut ) and six Nobel laureates. The university's history is linked to the development of Leeds as an international centre for the textile industry and clothing manufacture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era . The university's roots can be traced back to

2278-639: The University of Leeds, Sir Peter Scott . Midway through the broadcast a small group of protesters against the potential rise of student debt entered the building before being restrained and evacuated. In 2016, The University of Leeds became University of the Year 2017 in The Times and The Sunday Times ' Good University Guide. The university has risen to 13th place overall, which reflects impressive results in student experience, high entry standards, services and facilities, and graduate prospects. In 2022,

2345-415: The University of London. Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November. The Victoria University had been established by royal charter in 1880; Owens College being at first the only member college. Leeds now found itself in an educational union with close social cousins from Manchester and Liverpool . Unlike Owens College,

2412-572: The academic departments have specialist research facilities, for use by staff and students to support research from internationally significant collections in university libraries to state-of-the-art laboratories. These include those hosted at the Institute for Transport Studies , such as the University of Leeds Driving Simulator which is one of the most advanced worldwide in a research environment, allowing transport researchers to watch driver behaviour in accurately controlled laboratory conditions without

2479-440: The build was £22,000 and was raised partially by public appeal and served as the university library until the opening of the Brotherton Library. The Great Hall is now primarily used for examinations, meetings and graduation ceremonies. In June 2010, post-war buildings at the University of Leeds were recommended by English Heritage to become Grade II listed buildings. The modernist and brutalist buildings being recognised include

2546-447: The campus for visitors by car is on Woodhouse Lane ( A660 ), near the Parkinson Building. The former Woodhouse Cemetery is within the campus, now a landscaped area known as St George's Fields. The Parkinson Building is a grade II listed art deco building and campanile named after the late Frank Parkinson , a major benefactor of the university who oversaw many new build projects from 1936 onwards. These commitments culminating in

2613-472: The care of patients participating in clinical trials and was funded by the Trust with support from the University of Leeds , and additional funding provided by hospital charity Leeds Cares for specialist equipment. The Trust's research teams recruited the first patient globally and the first patient in the UK to two COVID-19 research trials of potential new therapies for the virus. The research teams also developed

2680-457: The city centre for seven years in 2020 in order to free up space for the development. A dedicated Research and Innovation Centre opened at St James's Hospital in 2017 and a six-bed Children's Clinical Research Facility was opened at Leeds Children's Hospital by the Countess of Wessex in 2018. Throughout 2019/2020, the Trust opened 231 new studies overall with the highest recruiting study being

2747-437: The college and aiding the students. The university continues to recognise these elements of its history; for example, there is still a Clothworkers' Court on campus. The College of Science, modelled on Owens College, Manchester, was established in 1851 as non-sectarian, and was open to Protestant Dissenters , Catholics and Jews (though not then to women) since Oxford and Cambridge restricted attendance to members only of

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2814-405: The community and the hospital trusts are generally planning to follow these initiatives. Foundation trust status may be applied for by the above categories of NHS trust. Successive governments have announced that all NHS trusts should become foundation trusts, and deadlines have been set for this transformation, which have repeatedly been missed. Several special health authorities , organised on

2881-439: The federal Victoria University in 1887, joining Owens College (which became the University of Manchester ) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool ). In 1904, a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII . Leeds is the eleventh-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrollment and receives over 67,000 undergraduate applications per year, making it

2948-492: The fifth-most popular university (behind Manchester , Edinburgh , University College London and King's College London ) in the UK by volume of applications. Leeds had an income of £979.5 million in 2022–23, of which £184.9 million was from research grants and contracts. The university has financial endowments of £83.2 million (2023), placing it within the top twenty British universities by financial endowment. Notable alumni include current Prime Minister of

3015-568: The formation of schools of medicine in English cities to serve the general public. The Victoria University was established in Manchester in 1880 as a federal university in the North of England , instead of the government elevating Owens College to a university and grant it a royal charter . Owens College was the sole college of Victoria University from 1880 to 1884; in 1887 Yorkshire College

3082-400: The global world ranking of the University of Leeds is 86. There are currently 36,840 students studying at the university. The average tuition fee is £9,250 (~$ 12,000–12,500) per year, although there are cases where there are partial subsidies towards this cost. The university has 1,230 acres (498 ha) of land in total, with the main campus taking up 98 acres (40 ha). The main campus

3149-523: The immediate population of 770,000 and regional specialist care for up to 5.4 million people. The Trust is rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission . It provides services for the population of Leeds and surrounding areas, and is a regional centre for a range of services including cancer , neurosurgery , heart surgery , liver and kidney transplantation . In 2009 it was the largest NHS trust in England, and now employs over 18,000 staff on seven main sites. It runs seven hospitals: As part of

3216-808: The institute of molecular medicine based at St James's University Hospital which aids integration of research and practice in the medical field. The university also operate research facilities in the aviation field, with the Airbus A320 flight simulator . The simulator was devised with an aim to promote the safety and efficiency of flight operations; where students use the simulator to develop their reactions to critical situations such as engine failure, display malfunctioning and freak weather. In addition to these facilities, many university departments conduct research in their respective fields. There are also various research centres, including Leeds University Centre for African Studies . The Leeds School of Medicine

3283-773: The largest research libraries in the UK. The main arts and humanities library is the Brotherton Library , located in the Parkinson Building. The main science, social sciences and engineering library is the Edward Boyle Library, located in the centre of the campus. Medicine, dentistry and healthcare students are served by the Health Sciences Library, located in the Worsley Building, and there is an extension of this library at St James's University Hospital . The Laidlaw Library on

3350-603: The latter now has the power to award its own degrees. The College of the Resurrection , an Anglican theological college in Mirfield with monastic roots , has, since its inception in 1904, been affiliated to the university, and ties remain close. The university is also a founding member of the Northern Consortium . In August 2010, the university was one of the most targeted institutions by students entering

3417-462: The local community with over 2,000 university student volunteers. With 8,700 staff employed in 2019–20, the university is the third largest employer in Leeds and contributes around £1.23bn a year to the local economy – students add a further £211m through rents and living costs. The university's educational partnerships have included providing formal accreditation of degree awards to Leeds College of Art and Leeds Trinity University College , although

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3484-531: The main campus, close to Eccup. It is a 36 hectare site with over 60,000 "regionally appropriate" trees, including oak, hazel, and willow, providing a base for research, teaching, social opportunities and carbon capture. The first tree was planted by Roger Gair, a former University Secretary, in 2022. During the 2022/23 academic year, 36,330 students were enrolled. There were around 560 different first-degree programmes and approximately 300 postgraduate degree programmes in 2009–10. Whilst maintaining its strengths in

3551-534: The main campus, serving the needs of undergraduates, opened in May 2015. It is named after Lord Laidlaw who gave £9,000,000 towards its construction. The university library houses numerous archives, rare books and some objects in its Special Collections ranging from 2,500 BC to the 21st century. Special Collections holds five collections designated as outstanding by the Arts Council England . These are

3618-703: The national response to COVID-19, Leeds Teaching Hospitals also hosted the NHS Nightingale Hospital for Yorkshire and the Humber , located at the Harrogate Convention Centre . Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust delivered the largest surplus in its 20-year history in 2018/19, of almost £53m, compared to the surplus of £19m in the previous year. The Trust has had difficulty gaining Foundation Trust status because of failures to hit key financial and performance targets which caused

3685-557: The newly Grade II* listed Roger Stevens Building, whilst the EC Stoner Building, Computer Science Building, Mathematics/Earth Sciences Building, Senior Common Room, Garstang Building, Irene Manton Building, Communications and Edward Boyle Library (formerly the South Library) and Henry Price Building have been recognised as Grade II listed buildings. These additions join the already listed 1877 Great Hall and Baines Wing,

3752-434: The official opening of The Parkinson Building (to which Parkinson donated £200,000) on 9 November 1951. The tower of the building is a well-known landmark in the city of Leeds and is used in the university logo and as a university symbol. The campanile is the highest point of the building and stands at 57 metres (187 ft) tall, making it the 17th tallest building in the city of Leeds. The Leeds University Business School

3819-497: The remaining NHS trusts to become foundation trusts, saying "We are frankly kidding ourselves if we think the non-FTs are going to pass the kinds of criteria that have been set by Monitor ." There are several types of NHS trusts: Over time the distinction between different types has eroded, and both hospital and mental health trusts have taken on responsibility for various community services. Sustainability and transformation plans all propose to move services out of hospitals into

3886-541: The risks associated with a live, physical environment. With extensive links to the St James's University Hospital through the Leeds School of Medicine, the university operates a range of high-tech research laboratories for biomedical and physical sciences, food and engineering – including clean rooms for bionanotechnology and plant science greenhouses. The university is connected to Leeds General Infirmary and

3953-574: The study of engineering and textile technology (due to the manufacturing and textile trades being strong in the West Riding ). When classics, modern literature and history went on offer a few years later, the Yorkshire College of Science became simply the Yorkshire College. In 1884, the Yorkshire College absorbed the Leeds School of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University (established at Manchester in 1880) on 3 November 1887. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by

4020-438: The third floor accommodating the Innovation Hub. The Roger Stevens building, built in 1970, is one of the most iconic structures on campus, and is primarily utilised for lectures. The university's Great Hall building is one of the most prominent buildings on campus alongside the Parkinson Building and the numerous brutalist buildings which are Grade II listed. The Great Hall was built on a site of Beech Grove Hall Estate which

4087-550: The traditional subjects (for example more students studying languages and physical sciences than anywhere else in the UK), Leeds has also developed expertise in more distinctive and rare specialist areas such as Colour Chemistry, Fire Science, Nanotechnology and Aviation Technology with Pilot studies. The university library is spread over five locations, and holds, in total, 2.78 million books, 26,000 print and electronic journals, 850 databases and 6,000 electronic books: making it one of

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4154-576: The university began re-branding itself to consolidate its visual identity to promote one consistent image. A new logo was produced, based on that used during the centenary celebrations in 2004, to replace the combined use of the modified university arms and the Parkinson Building , which has been in use since 2004. The university arms will still be used in its original form for ceremonial purposes only. Four university colours were also specified as being green, red, black and beige. Leeds provides

4221-408: The unprecedented salary of £400 per annum to Hannah Robertson who took on a double role of "Mistress of Method" in the Education department and as the Tutor of Women. The Victoria (Leeds) University was a short-lived concept, as the multiple university locations in Manchester and Liverpool were keen to establish themselves as separate, independent universities. This was partially due to the benefits

4288-560: Was established by a statutory instrument . NHS trusts are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations . Each trust is headed by a board consisting of executive and non-executive directors , and is chaired by a non-executive director. There were about 2,200 non-executives across 470 organisations in the NHS in England in 2015. Non-executive directors are recruited by open advertisement. All trusts ( foundation trusts and those which have yet to reach foundation trust status) are regulated by NHS England and

4355-413: Was purchased in 1879 by the then Yorkshire College when joining the Victoria University . This was later demolished in 1884, to become the site of the Clothworkers buildings of the Baines Memorial Wing and the Great Hall. The buildings were designed by the renowned Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse R.A in red pressed brick and had dressings of Bolton Wood stone in a Gothic Collegiate style. The cost of

4422-466: Was reported that the trust had been forced to cancel liver transplant operations because of a shortage of critical care nurses. The trust renegotiated the private finance initiative for the Bexley Wing at St James's Hospital in May 2017 and expects to save £52 million over the life of the contract. NHS hospital trust NHS trusts were established under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and were set up in five waves. Each one

4489-405: Was the third to join the university. In 1831, the Leeds School of Medicine was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five medical institutions which had been established in the city. In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science was created to provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants. Financial support from local industry was crucial in setting up

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