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Population Research UK (PRUK) @popres-uk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
📢 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
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Bristol @bristolbrc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🚨 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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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...
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Health Innovation West of England @healthinnowest.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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: www.healthinnowest.net/event/region… Please join us!
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Health Innovation West of England @healthinnowest.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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! vimeo.com/1133093696?fl=pl&fe=sh
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Bristol @bristolbrc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🎉 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
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Bristol @bristolbrc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🎬 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...
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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📢 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/
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢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. ▶️Read: tinyurl.com/32zhuzeu ✔️Subscribe: eepurl.com/dssOhD @nihrspcr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @bnssgresearch.bsky.social
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NIHR HPRU in Evaluation and Behavioural Science @hpruebs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
📢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
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Bristol @bristolbrc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📣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...
📣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/
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“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
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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
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🌟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
CLARITY PAD study team holding a certificate for recruiting 50 patients and box of chocolates.
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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
💈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 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🙌🏽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
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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 ...
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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
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NIHR HPRU in Evaluation and Behavioural Science @hpruebs.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
📰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
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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 ow.ly/BJxL50Ww3Gx #breastcancer #screening #FASTMRI #research
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Health Innovation West of England @healthinnowest.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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
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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"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
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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...
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
@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 ow.ly/uYzp50W9ZPR Funded ‪@nihr.bsky.social‬
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£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.
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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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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 ...
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Health Innovation West of England @healthinnowest.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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
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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...
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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 ow.ly/WvIr50VUYtX #ICTD2025
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
📣#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 Sign up bit.ly/45geioo
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Innovation in Action: Empowering SLTs in the South West Through Connection
Get ready to connect, collaborate, and innovate with fellow SLTs in the South West to empower each other through action and shared knowledge
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🌟As part of our #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay celebrations we held a tea party for our Research STAR Award nominees, attended by Ingrid Barker 🌟 Thank you to all our amazing colleagues who support #research in addition to your day-to-day role. #ICTD2025
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Sam Harding @samharding.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New article - *Preparing allied health professional students to work collaboratively with families of young children (0-8 years): A scoping review* tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @nihr.bsky.social @researchnbt.bsky.social @renalyons.bsky.social @clarecarrollslt.bsky.social
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Preparing allied health professional students to work collaboratively with families of young children (0-8 years): A scoping review
Collaborative working with families has positive impacts on outcomes for families and children. However, implementing a collaborative approach requires allied health professionals to have knowledge...
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Bristol @bristolbrc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚀Just launched! Our How-To Guide on how to use co-developed theatre for disseminating research on sensitive subjects. 🎭Download the guide www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/how-to-guide/ 📃Read @thebeetlebox.bsky.social's blog about how the guide came about www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/like-russian...
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Thank you to all of our Research Nurses on #InternationalNursesDay You all do such amazing work every day to ensure as many patients as possible can take part in #research & you offer incredible support through their research journey #IND2025 #ClinicalResearch @nihr.bsky.social
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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Only a few days until #InternationalNursesDay on Monday 12 May! We’ll be sharing stories from our dedicated #research nurses about what they do day to day & how they feel they’re making a difference to patient care. Today, meet Rachel, a new researcher bit.ly/4j3RVq7 #IND2025
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