Research at North Bristol NHS Trust

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📢 AI Workshops alert!

We’re bringing together researchers from the LPS community to co-design a new AI training platform. Join one of our workshops:

✅ Beginners – 26 January 2:00 – 3:15pm
✅ Experts – 23 February 2:00 – 3:15pm

👉 Complete the quick form to find your fit: shorturl.at/cE4uX

New guidance on creating accessible patient information leaflets for clinical trials - Bristol Biomedical Research Centre New guidance on how to create accessible and inclusive patient information leaflets is available to researchers who want to recruit patients to their clinical trials. The guidance was created by healt...

🚨 New guidance on creating accessible patient information leaflets for clinical trials 🚨

🧑‍⚕️ Are you a health researcher? Want to recruit patients to trials?
👉 Find out how to make your patient information leaflets more accessible and inclusive:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/new-guidance...

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If you work in or with perinatal services in the South West & are passionate about reducing health inequalities, join our Regional Perinatal Equity Network.

Our next event is Wednesday 14 January: https://www.healthinnowest.net/event/regional-perinatal-equity-network-11/ Please join us!

Check our new animation about #MarthasRule, helping explain and promote this vital #NHS #PatientSafety programme to both members of the public and healthcare professionals. Please help us to share!

https://vimeo.com/1133093696?fl=pl&fe=sh

🎉 Celebrating what we've achieved in 2025! 🎉

🥳 See the top news stories of the year from our research themes 👇

📰 Read all our news of 2025 at www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/news/

#diet #PhysicalActivity #SurgicalInnovation #MentalHealth #DataScience #RespiratoryDisease

🎬 New films launched today!

United for Health: a collaboration with South Asian community group Dhek Bhal and @bristoluni.bsky.social, highlighting why involving minoritised communities in research matters.

Project funded by @hellobrigstow.bsky.social

www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/united-for-h...

📢 In our latest newsletter:

➡️News and photos from our BIGGEST EVER conference
➡️How a pioneering local group is helping stroke survivors get back to work
➡️ England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer visits Bristol

Read: mailchi.mp/bristolhealt...
Subscribe: bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/newsletter/

📢Our latest #PrimaryCare research newsletter (Nov 25) is out now!

📰Packed with news about our latest research findings, blog posts & opinion pieces, events & recruiting studies.

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New website launch

📢New website launch!🎉
Six months into our new chapter of funding, we’re thrilled to unveil our new digital home! Explore our refreshed look, designed to make accessing our latest projects, research & collaborative opportunities easier than ever.
More➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfyyvf2 @nihr.bsky.social

📣Your voice matters in our research! Whether you're a patient, carer, young person, community member - we're looking for new members of our Public Advisory Group. You'll help shape our research. Register your interest: https://www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/PublicAdvisoryGroup/

📣Your voice matters in our research!

Whether you're a patient, carer, young person, community member - we're looking for new members of our Public Advisory Group. You'll help shape our research.

Register your interest:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/PublicAdviso...

❓ What has ARC West achieved since it formed 6 years ago?
👉 Follow #6YearsOfARCWest to find out…

In the last 6 years, we have:
👨‍⚕️ Carried out 202 projects
📓 Published 596 papers

👉 Read more: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/six-years-of...
#ARCimpacts

The FAST MRI DYAMOND breast cancer screening study – How did we get here? | North Bristol NHS Trust A new study is investigating whether FAST MRI, a new type of scan, can help detect small but aggressive breast cancers earlier. Now open to patients, the

“I was so excited to read #FASTMRI found #breastcancers smaller and earlier than mammograms. I wanted to bring it to
Bristol”

9 years on Lyn Jones, the DYAMOND study lead, shares what it has taken to open the trial to patients.

👉 bit.ly/3KkSO1s

Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).

Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts.

📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm

Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw

@nihrspcr.bsky.social

CLARITY PAD study team holding a certificate for recruiting 50 patients and box of chocolates.

🌟Congratulations to the North Bristol NHS CLARITY PAD Trial team 🌟

🧑‍🦱50 patients recruited
🏥highest recruiting site
🎉¼ way to target

CLARITY PAD is an NBT-led study to improve outcomes from treatment for blocked leg arteries

@nihr.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

💈Today on the BBC: Barbers and hairdressers in Bristol are encouraging people to talk about sexually transmitted diseases.

Keep up the great work Common Ambition Bristol🙌🏿

#Sexualhealthweek #SHW25
nihrarcs.bsky.social
shipsexhealth.bsky.social

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Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB joins national rollout of groundbreaking exercise programme REACT - Bristol Health Partners Older people in and around Bristol will soon be able to benefit from REtirement in ACTion (REACT), a group-based exercise programme proven to support people to improve and maintain their mobility and ...

🙌🏽More REACT classes coming to Bristol, North Somerset and South Glos!

REACT is the evidence-based exercise programme which helps people to keep moving as they age. Thanks to @vivensa.bsky.social for funding this new @unibirmingham.bsky.social implementation study.

bit.ly/3HqQcxQ

A whole year of impact summarised in 90 seconds? ✅

Thank you to everyone in our partnership and beyond who has helped us to achieve all this (and much more!) in 2024-25.

For even more about the impact we're making to health and care locally, go to bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/impact

Pregnant woman

📰News!📰 New research shows worldwide scale of HCV among babies & children.
“Given the availability of effective medicine & further progress in this field, it’s vital that testing & diagnosis rates improve so more people can be treated & cured.”
➡️ bit.ly/4oh4zFI #WorldHepatitisDay @nihr.bsky.social

BBC Points West - Dr Lyn Jones, FAST MRI DYAMOND breast cancer screening study lead explains how FAST MRI may help find ‘hard to spot’ cancers earlier

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#breastcancer #screening #FASTMRI #research

White hand with pale blue/grey nail varnish holds a bright pink post-it note featuring a drawing of a light bulb. Blurred image in background of group of people talking. White text on purple background reads: New job vacancy - senior innovation advisor. Closing date: Sunday 27 July 2025. Logo for Health Innovation West of England.

Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes through innovation? Do you have industry experience combined with NHS expertise? If so, you could be perfect for our new Senior Innovation Advisor role!

Find out more at www.healthinnowest.net/careers/job-... Closing date: Sunday 27 July 2025

OPINION: People who work in research do not look like me. I want to change that. - Bristol Health Partners Coming from Zimbabwe, it has always been hammered into me that education was the only way to succeed. So, I pursued most of the educational opportunities that came my way, with my last academic qualif...

"People who work in research don't look like me. I want to change that."

Meet Connie, team member, clinical research nurse and @nihr.bsky.social Senior Research Leader.

www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/news/constan...

#nursing #inclusion #research @researchnbt.bsky.social

£2.5 million for largest trial to improve outcomes from treatment for blocked leg arteries | North Bristol NHS Trust Blocked leg arteries – often caused by diabetes or smoking – are very common, but if left untreated can lead to amputation, or even death.

@NorthBristolNHS is leading a £2.5m study to improve outcomes of treatment for blocked leg arteries.

Collaborating with @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social ‪@bristoluni.bsky.social‬ the @clarity-trial.bsky.social study will compare 3 blood-thinning tablets

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Funded ‪@nihr.bsky.social‬

Fred

Francis

Taking part in research can be life-changing. Huge thanks to Fred & Francis for sharing their stories of how taking part in the NIHR-funded Game of Stones study helped them lose weight & improve their wellbeing.

Read the blog: bit.ly/4mXdFqa
#BePartOfResearch

Pauline's Story: Taking Part in Diabetes Research | North Bristol NHS Trust Pauline found out about a study when she was attending her husband Ian’s research appointment. She had seen how much being part of a study had helped her husband, so it was a straightforward decision ...

This week is #WorldDiabetesWeek

A huge thank you to all the people who take part in Diabetes Research.

Pauline took part as a healthy volunteer. You can see her full story: ow.ly/HPOy50Q7nTv

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We're recruiting! Do you have experience of developing strategic partnerships, working with marginalised communities, the charity & voluntary sector, local authorities and care providers? If so, check out our new role... www.healthinnowest.net/careers/job-... #nhsjobs #hiring #bristoljobs

New Friends and Family Handbook gives advice on how to support someone experiencing domestic abuse A new Friends and Family Handbook, written by Dr Alison Gregory, an Independent Academic and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, has been la...

Would you know what to do or say if someone you know is, or may be, experiencing domestic abuse?

A new 'Friends and Family Handbook' written by @dralisongregory.bsky.social and published by @womensaid.bsky.social gives advice & support.

Find out more: bit.ly/3ZdG6WV

#DomesticAbuse #VAWG

Our @NorthBristolNHS Pharmacy Research Team has increased its commercial studies by 50% this year 👏

On #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay read how the team plays an essential role in the delivery of our clinical trials

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#ICTD2025

📣#SpeechandLanguageTherapists join us on 11 July in Taunton for the #RCSLT South West Hub relaunch event!

👩Connect with #SLT researchers, therapy assistants, students
🚀Talks, workshops, networking

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