Innovation through co-design

User-centred healthcare design (UCHD) brings together patients, healthcare staff, families and communities to explore and understand the real-life experiences of healthcare.

We use that knowledge to drive innovation and improvement in healthcare service delivery.

Young people with diabetes

Developing digital tools and services that support young people to self-manage type 1 diabetes.

Better Outpatient Services for Older People (BOSOP)

Improving services at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield.

Our downloads

Download publications - including research reports, book chapters, papers and presentation slides.

Better Services by Design (BSBD)

An opportunity for healthcare service improvement and innovation projects to work with UCHD

“CLAHRC South Yorkshire is focussed on improving the health care of people with long-term conditions. As a theme within this collaboration, UCHD is changing the way health services are designed to enable people to take an active role in their own health care. We are keen to see the co-design approaches taken by UCHD applied to as many projects as possible as sometimes it takes a fresh outlook to suggest where effective improvements can easily be made.”

Professor Sue Mawson
Director, NIHR CLAHRC for South Yorkshire

What we're doing

Better Services by Design information event
Tues 6th March 2012 - we held an information event for potential BSBD partners

Service Design for the 21st Century
Helena reports on the ServDes conference in Finland

CLAHRC SY Newsletter 2011/12 'Transforming Services'
Read the latest CLAHRC-SY newsletter.

Diabetes Dragons’ Den
...a creative workshop based on the television programme Dragons’ Den but with a twist!