Clinical Health and Nutrition Centre

The mission of the Clinical Health & Nutrition Centre (CHANCE) for research is to provide leadership to facilitate improvements in the quality and effectiveness of rehabilitative and preventative healthcare management at regional level through the conduct of high quality, priority-driven, and actionable research. The activities of CHANCE will focus on important questions relating to the delivery of ‘World Class’ rehabilitative treatments and health promotion in the Northwest region as well as the support and promotion of best practice within Healthcare organisations.

The goals of CHANCE are to:

• Strengthen the knowledge base of clinical healthcare organisations in the region by conducting and supporting research.
• Facilitate the uptake of clinical research evidence in healthcare policy and practice.
• Enhance research capacity in clinical healthcare, health promotion and nutrition through strategic partnerships with other relevant national and international groups.
• Disseminate to the members findings of clinical health and nutrition research.
• Identify and disseminate to the members successful innovations and treatment practices from our clinical research trials.