Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest centres for respiratory medicine, one of the biggest centres in the UK for head and neck cancer surgery and one of only three Behcet's Centres in the UK. Here, Chief Executive Catherine Beardshaw describes how LHP has raised research on the Trust's agenda and is providing greater opportunities for closer collaboration with other local trusts.