The Northern Health Science Alliance Ltd (NHSA) is a partnership established by the leading Universities and NHS Hospital Trusts in the North of England to improve the health and wealth of the region by creating an internationally recognized life science and healthcare system. The NHSA links 10 universities and 10 NHS Teaching Trusts with the four northern Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). Together the Alliance cover a patient population of 16 million people. The NHSA acts as a single portal bringing together research, health science innovation and commercialisation to provide benefits for researchers, universities, hospitals, patients as well as commercial partners.