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The Hinduja Group and King’s College London announced a new partnership. The initiative aims at improving healthcare outcomes in India and the UK, through training and research capacity building as well as scholarships for Indian students.
It will lead to the creation of a new Hinduja-King’s Health Partners Academy with the aim of driving forward the development of new technologies to address global healthcare challenges.
King’s College London, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, the Hinduja Foundation UK and Mumbai’s P.D. Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Centre – run by the National Health & Education Society – are involved in the new strategic partnership to advance two-way training, education and research capacity building.
This collaboration will only strengthen the UK’s close links to India, and create greater research capacity in healthcare engineering, clinical innovation, and advanced training,” said UK Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden after a visit last week to the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) a new MedTech Venture Builder to bring together R&D expertise across academia, the National Health Service (NHS) and industry.
King’s College London, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ and the National Health & Education Society signed a memorandum of agreement at LIHE last week, which will deliver training in clinical and non-clinical short courses, research capacity building and executive education to health professionals in India and the UK for them to mutually share the best clinical practices.
According to the Hinduja family, the collaboration is in recognition of the philanthropic work of the late Srichand P. Hinduja, former chairman of the multinational Hinduja Group who passed away last year.
Professor Shitij Kapur, Vice-Chancellor and President of King’s College London, said the aim of the partnership was to support the next generation of healthcare professionals and biomedical technical talent in India and the UK, who will develop the healthcare technologies of the future.
The Hinduja Foundation UK was established in 1989 and is said to have supported numerous projects in education, health and interfaith understanding in the UK.
