Matthew J Ridd

#BSACI2025

🎉200+ Completed PSPs!

There are now over 200 published Top 10s, providing a huge range of questions for researchers and funders to work on. These lists of priorities are directly relevant to patients, carers and families, and healthcare professionals.

Check out the Top 10s here: buff.ly/RN6NNrV

The British Society for Allergy & Immunology (BSACI) Annual Conference starts today at the ICC Wales. Please look out for this poster of our Early Food Allergens Introduction (ELYFANT) study
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🍂 Welcome to the September 2025 NIHR SPCR newsletter! Discover research on: 💫 Personalised risk scores to improve ovarian cancer detection 🤝 Insights from a public co-applicant collaboration 🔦 Our latest Researcher Spotlight Plus news, events & funding updates 👉 http://bit.ly/3J8WItR

🍂 Welcome to the September 2025 NIHR SPCR newsletter!

Discover research on:
💫 Ovarian cancer detection
🤝 Public co-applicant collaborations
🔦 Latest Researcher Spotlight

Plus more blogs, news & publication updates 👉 bit.ly/3J8WItR

#SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

Listen to Dr Hannah Wainman, Consultant Dermatologist, GP and NIHR Doctoral Fellow with the CAESAR team, discuss treatment options for Hidradenitis Suppurativa on the BDNG Podcast by clicking this link:
bdng.org.uk/podcast/hidr...
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Building inclusive practices around mental capacity and consent in palliative care research

Involved in palliative care research? Join our workshop to explore issues around mental capacity & consent in palliative care research & build collaborations

📆 17 October, 10:30–3pm
📍 Royal College of Physicians, London
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📢PSP Shortlisting survey

The Stillbirth PSP is asking parents, professionals and anyone affected by stillbirth to prioritise the most urgent unanswered research questions. Your input will shape the future of research and care.

To take part in the survey, visit: buff.ly/jtffsUo

Our @skinandallergy.bsky.social team will be on hand with fun & games to help you learn more about their eczema & food allergy research! 🔬🎲😀

We look forward to seeing you there!

Will you be joining us in Southampton📍on 5–6 March 2026 🗓️ for the South West SAPC regional meeting?

Registration is now open ✅

Find details and sign up via the SW SAPC 2026 website 🌐

tinyurl.com/SWSAPC26

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✨National Eczema Week✨
Listen to Prof Matthew Ridd discuss the BEE Study that compared the effectiveness and acceptability of 4 commonly used types of emollients for the treatment of childhood eczema
bdng.org.uk/podcast/bee-...

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We will describe some of the tools we have developed to improve care for people with multiple health conditions and what we have learnt from our research with practices seeking to offer better care.

Clinicians in primary care are often asked what is the best moisturiser to use for #eczema.

The BEE Study (Best Emollients for Eczema) set out to answer this.

In this new British Dermatological Nursing Group podcast, @riddmj.bsky.social discusses the study and its findings.

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August: Research University of the Year | News and features | University of Bristol

Bristol is 2025 Research University of the Year www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au... (I don't disagree although this is according to the Daily Mail!)

Congratulations to the TIGER trial team who hit their recruitment target last month!
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Sarah Newman, NIHR School for Primary Care Research intern 2025

Read our latest blog post from Sarah Newman, 1st year medical student and NIHR School for Primary Care Research intern who joined the CAESAR team this summer.
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caesar.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/08/13/h...

People with eczema needed to help a study on how long to use steroid creams for #eczema @katehs.bsky.social @riddmj.bsky.social www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/keep-co...

Funny and yet horrifically true summing up. Do watch; they’re very good at what they do.

Front of CAPC Research News - July 2025. Lead story image - handheld devices for rapidly detecting dangerous synthetic drugs. Caption: Device that saves lives by detecting dangerous sythnetic drugs wins chemistry award.

📢Our latest research newsletter is out now (July 2025) - packed with our latest research findings, blogs, editorials and opinion pieces, events, featured multimedia content & more.

👀Take a look! ⬇️

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Less than 2 weeks left to participate in the PSP for food allergy in children. Click the link below to have your say in the top ten research priorities for childhood food allergy.
btcsurvey.bristol.ac.uk/redcap/surve...

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Summer art competition for people with eczema #eczema @sophiacollins.bsky.social @riddmj.bsky.social @katehs.bsky.social rapideczematrials.org/community/su...

The Finnish version of the Patient-Doctor Depth of Relationship questionnaire is now available to download! www.bristol.ac.uk/primaryhealt... @capcbristol.bsky.social

Calling all dads! Click on the link below to say what your top 10 questions are for research in childhood food allergy. Don't miss the last chance to have your say! Survey closes 31 July.
btcsurvey.bristol.ac.uk/redcap/surve...
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Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2023: health in an ageing society Professor Chris Whitty's annual report recommends actions to improve quality of life for older adults and prioritise areas with the fastest growth in older people.

Chief Medical Officer’s 2023 report, ‘Health in An Ageing Society’: “improving quality of
life in older age sometimes means less medicine, not more”. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Read our latest blog post from Dr Phuong Hua about her work in psychodermatology

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Dr Roxanne Parslow

Why we do research - Roxanne Parslow explains why she's motivated to find the Top 10 research priorities for children with #FoodAllergies in this @jameslindalliance.bsky.social article.

📖 bit.ly/44nrPJV

Help us finalise the Top 10 - vote by 31 July:
redcap.link/fapsp
See thread for eligibility. ⬇️

If you can’t read: sleep disturbance, isolation, family tension, self-harm amongst many problems below iceberg of itch, rash

@eczemasupport.bsky.social I’m at #EAACI in Glasgow and thought you would be interested in this. Good to see patients/parents being given the platform to share it from their side

You can find out more about all of the above and more at www.bristol.ac.uk/caesar

Also, learnt of two similar studies (in Saudi Arabia and Germany) looking at maternal awareness of early allergen introduction advice and whether they are following it It will be great in time to see how much variation there is in different countries

Interested to learn of research priority setting exercise also running NOW in Australia by NACE but for all allergies not just children/food allergy There's still time to take part in our second survey www.bristol.ac.uk/food-allergy-children