- Largest cluster of medical technology companies in the country (1)
- 2nd largest UK employer in Medtech (1)
- £1.6 billion annual contribution to GVA (2)
- Recognised as an “AI powerhouse” in UK
- 7 medical schools working closely with the Midlands’ 41 NHS Trusts, reinforced by the UK’s centre for rehabilitation and defence medicine and the recently opened UK’s national rehabilitation centre for civilian care
- 265 Foreign Direct Investment Projects into the Midlands in 2022-23 (4)
- The Midlands is the UK’s centre for Trauma & Defence Medicine with the tri-service Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) located at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and the Headquarters of the Surgeon General together with the Joint Medical Command at Lichfield
- 2nd largest clinical trials cluster in Europe
- A stable, ethnically diverse population of over 10.7 million citizens, making it the ideal test bed for global health and multi-morbidity interventions
The Midlands region offers outstanding opportunities for business in the life sciences sector, and Medilink Midlands helps stimulate additional and value-added growth of the Midlands as a prosperous community for Life Sciences, with strategic alliances working in collaboration with a vast eco-system of industry, academic and NHS focussed partners, including; the Midlands Engine, Health Innovation West Midlands, Health Innovation East Midlands, Midlands Innovation Health (MI Health), Midlands Health Alliance (MHA), Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Charnwood Campus and the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands.
The Midlands region boasts:
(1) – https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/bioscience-and-health-technology-sector-statistics-2021-to-2022/bioscience-and-health-technology-sector-statistics-2021-to-2022
(2) – https://www.midlandsengine.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ME-Health-Focus_MedTechDev5.pdf
(3) – https://www.medilinkmidlands.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Driving-Life-Sciences-Business-in-the-UK-Midlands-Region-Brochure-4.pdf
(4) – https://midlandsengine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ME_StateoftheRegion_2023.pdf
See our previous addition of Driving Life Sciences in the Midlands below:
