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Life Sciences Healthcare Goals
Bringing together industry, academia, the third sector and the NHS to tackle healthcare challenges such as dementia, cancer, mental health, obesity and addiction.
From:
Office for Life Sciences
,
Department of Health and Social Care
and
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Published
6 December 2024
Last updated
17 April 2026
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Documents
Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals
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Cancer Healthcare Goals
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Obesity Healthcare Goals
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Addiction Healthcare Goals
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Mental Health Goals
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The Healthcare Goals are intended to apply a Vaccine Taskforce-type approach by bringing together industry, academia, the third sector and the NHS to collaborate to make progress in these disease areas, by advancing early disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and developing breakthrough products and technologies to save lives.
In 2022, we launched Healthcare Goals in the disease areas of dementia, cancer, mental health, obesity and addiction. In 2023, we appointed world-leading experts to be the Chairs of the Healthcare Goals to shape the direction and drive progress.
Updates to this page
Published 6 December 2024
Last updated 17 April 2026
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17 April 2026
Updates on progress of the Healthcare Goals Programme's and further links shared.
16 December 2025
Updates on the progress of the delivery of the Addiction, Obesity and Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programmes.
14 October 2025
Updated to reflect updates in delivery of the Addiction, Mental Health, Dementia and Obesity Healthcare Goals programmes.
31 July 2025
Changes have been made to: update the latest objectives for each of the programmes, update the Mental Health Goals Chairs biographies, update on a new competition in the Obesity Healthcare Goals programme, update on the Cancer Goals contributing £5 million towards the second round of Innovate UK’s Advancing Precision Medicine funding competition, and make references to the recently published 10 Year Health Plan and Life Sciences Sector Plan.
5 June 2025
We have updated information including links on the webpages and have removed the information around funding on the main healthcare goals webpage.
7 March 2025
We have updated the addiction goals page to say "'In August 2024, the PSP launched its first survey to collate research questions from the community. Following analysis of the responses, the second prioritisation survey was launched in January and a final workshop to agree the Top 10 list of research questions will take place in March.' and updated the obesity goals chair's biography to say "Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine"
6 December 2024
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