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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West
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The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West is one of 15 @nihrarcs.bsky.social funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (@nihr.bsky.social). We work with our partners in the West of England on applied health and care research
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Helping people to live and survive co-use of benzodiazepines / z-drugs and opioids: the importance of asking how and why people co-use: a new @drnscot.bsky.social blog by Gabriele Vojt, @jokesten.bsky.social Jennifer Scott @hannah-family.bsky.social
#HarmReduction
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Helping people to live and survive co-use of benzodiazepines/z-drugs and opioids: the importance of asking how and why people co-use - Drug Research Network Scotland
Helping people to live and survive co-use of benzodiazepines/z-drugs and opioids: the importance of asking how and why people co-use Gabriele Vojt, Joanna Kesten, Jennifer Scott, Hannah Family, on beh...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Introducing the Bristol Research and Innovation Data Engineering (BRIDE) Hub, set to revolutionise access to #Bristol hospital data.

Our new partnership with Bristol NHS Group, @bristoluni.bsky.social @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social @bristolbrc.bsky.social
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New partnership set to revolutionise data access - southwestsde-nhs-uk
The South West Secure Data Environment (SDE) has secured £440k to lead two new projects to demonstrate the potential of the NHS SDE Network.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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🗞️ Read the February national roundup of top stories from all ARCs across the country:

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Including news, resources, blogs, events, opportunities & much more

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The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) February 2026 newsletter
The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: The first major trial to reduce social media use among healthy adolescents, Continuous care from community-based midwives reduce...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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"I was one of the people who’d walked away from their career when they didn’t need to"

Public contributor Adele shares her story of how perimenopausal brain fog led her to leave her teaching job, and how she's helping others in a similar position

Read her blog:
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From brain fog to blood pressure – how real life menopause experiences shaped our recent event - ARC West
Adele is a long-serving ARC West public contributor, and one of the brains behind our recent ‘Let’s talk about menopause’ event and video. Here she explains why she wanted to make her idea become a re...
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February 2, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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"Menopause is not a problem to be hidden. It is a shared life stage."

Public contributor Joanne Lloyd blogs about our recent 'Let's talk about the menopause' event. 🌸

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#Menopause #WomensHealth #HealthEquity #ARCWest
“Menopause is not a problem to be hidden” - ARC West
Joanne Lloyd, one of our public contributors behind our recent Let’s talk about the menopause event, blogs about how the day went for her. I was really pleased to be asked to take part in the Let’s ta...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Applications are now open for @nihrspcr.bsky.social funded primary care research post-doctoral fellowships to start in October 2026.

The 24-month fellowships can be taken up at any of the 9 NIHR School for Primary Care Research institutions, including here at Bristol.

Details: tinyurl.com/3nc9abzs
2026: Applications open for NIHR post-doctoral fellowships | Centre for Academic Primary Care | University of Bristol
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January 28, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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👀 Looking for a postdoctoral #fellowship? 👇
capcbristol.bsky.social Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 13d
@nihrspcr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @gw4alliance.bsky.social @chcr-uwe.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @arc-west.bsky.social @ebibristol.bsky.social @bristolbrc.bsky.social @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @bristolhealthp.bsky.social

#PrimaryCare #Research
capcbristol.bsky.social Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 13d
Applications are now open for @nihrspcr.bsky.social funded primary care research post-doctoral fellowships to start in October 2026.

The 24-month fellowships can be taken up at any of the 9 NIHR School for Primary Care Research institutions, including here at Bristol.

Details: tinyurl.com/3nc9abzs
January 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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💡 Interested in qualitative research methods?

👀 Read our recent paper on how conducting an #ethnography can help understand context when designing public health interventions 🏃‍♂️

👉 Read the paper: bit.ly/4boXM8W
👉 Read more about our project: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/passport-cre...
The Value in Rapid, Multi-Site Team Ethnography for Understanding Context to Design Public Health Interventions: Learning From the PASSPORT Study
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January 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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📮Our first email newsletter of 2026 is out today!

In this edition: In this edition: How pupils feel about school behaviour policies; Millions could be unlocked through better implementation of evidence; Making space for art in research

➕Plus much more.

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The NIHR ARC West newsletter - January edition
In this edition: How pupils feel about school behaviour policies; Millions could be unlocked through better implementation of evidence; Making space for art in research; Plus much more
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January 28, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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📢 Upcoming webinar: Introduction to implementation economics!

Hosted by @healthinnowest.bsky.social

❓Looking to deepen your understanding of economic evaluation in real-world healthcare innovation?

🗓️ 11 Feb, 12-1pm

➡️ Register: www.healthinnowest.net/event/introd...
Introduction to implementation economics - Health Innovation West of England
11/02/2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm -
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January 27, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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📣 Are you a researcher? Interested in #PPIE?

👀 Watch the NIHR PPI webinar: How to develop a PPI group
🗓️ 18 Feb, 10.30am

Find out about the Bristol-based PPI group, working as part of the #HeartSurgery #prehabilitation research team

👉 Register: bit.ly/4t31evY
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: NIHR Webinar Series - 11 - How to Develop a PPI Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
What is the webinar series about? Patient and public involvement is a prerequisite for all research funded by NIHR. It can enhance the relevance and quality of research and help build trust in the res...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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Check out the highlights and hear from the attendees in our video from the day
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What do women wish they’d known about the menopause?
YouTube video by NIHR ARC West
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January 26, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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❓What do you wish you’d known about the menopause?

We brought 50 women together at a Bristol community centre to share evidence-based information on HRT, nutrition and more.

🗞️Find out more about the event in our news story

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#PublicHealth #MenopauseAwareness
What do women wish they’d known about the menopause? - ARC West
The things women wish they’d known about the menopause are explored in a new video, inspired by our recent ‘Let’s talk about the menopause’ event. The idea for the event came from a group of our publi...
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January 26, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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📰News!📰Understanding street tablet users’ perspectives in an area with many drug-related deaths.
“Collaborating with peer researchers was integral to engaging this high-risk & underrepresented population of people who use drugs" More➡️ tinyurl.com/34sywrc7 @arc-west.bsky.social @jokesten.bsky.social
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January 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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Join this free online meeting to hear about our research:

➡️ #HIV & Hepatitis Awareness for Tattoo & Piercing Artists @cdodds.bsky.social
➡️ Tackling HIV inequities with African and Caribbean communities @commonambitionbs.bsky.social
➡️ #PrEP pharmacy pilot to improve HIV prevention

#STI #STISky 🛟
January 15, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Coming up: 📢Three FREE community drop-in events connecting communities & researchers for better health:

📆20 Jan - Bristol
📆29 Jan - Weston-super-Mare
📆31 Jan - Kingswood

Each event offers:

☑️free basic health checks
☑️friendly conversations
☑️feedback from Health Ambassadors

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2026: Connecting communities and researchers to build lasting relationships for better | Centre for Academic Primary Care | University of Bristol
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January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Lovely work from the #PReCePT programme on how perinatal prevention work saves money as well as benefitting patients @karenluyt.bsky.social @frankdv.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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🚀 Good news for data-enabled health research in our region!

💷We have secured £440k to lead 2 NHS SDE Network driver projects, including a national diabetes core dataset and streamlining SDE workflows using automation & AI.

#HealthData #DiabetesResearch #SDE

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Transforming diabetes research: South West SDE leads new projects - southwestsde-nhs-uk
The South West Secure Data Environment (SDE) has secured £440k to lead two new projects to demonstrate the potential of the NHS SDE Network.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Millions of pounds’ worth of savings and health benefits are left unrealised in the NHS, our new study shows. The paper demonstrates how health systems could unlock huge benefits by implementing evidence-based treatments more effectively, using PReCePT as an example.
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Millions in savings could be unlocked through better implementation of evidence-based treatments - ARC West
Millions of pounds’ worth of savings and health benefits are left unrealised in the NHS, a new study has shown. Published in Frontiers in Health Services, the paper demonstrates how health systems cou...
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January 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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🆕 New study published!
💊 Understanding street tablet users’ perspectives in an area with many drug-related deaths

🗨️ A peer researcher engaged with people at high risk of harm from drugs to seek their perspectives

👉 arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/understandin...

@jokesten.bsky.social @hpruebs.bsky.social
Understanding street tablet users’ perspectives in an area with many drug-related deaths - ARC West
A new study presents the perspectives of people who use street tablets in Middlesborough, an area with one of the highest rates of drug-related harm and death in the UK. A peer researcher with past ex...
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January 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Trust and relationships are core to working well together across organisational and sector boundaries.

Members of our project to develop a co-production community of practice reflect on how they built trust and developed their relationships to work better together.
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Working well and together: Reflections of a support group for more effective coproduction research - ARC West
In this blog, members of the  Developing a co-production community of practice project reflect on how they built trust and developed their relationships. When we started working together, we didn’t kn...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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📢Blog time!📢Great new blog on our website by Dr Helen Baxter @arc-west.bsky.social, reviewed by our own HM expert
@drclarethomas.bsky.social - Conversations about knowledge mobilisation with public contributors.
Read more➡️ tinyurl.com/9ccz6tra @bristoluni.bsky.social
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January 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Great to see our #PrEP pharmacy pilot inform @tht.org.uk ‬
report. Prep via pharmacies could make #HIV prevention more equitable, less stigmatized & more embedded in people’s everyday lives

Read about our research ➡️ arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/research/pro...

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January 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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💭What do community-based researchers think of the training available to them?

🛤️The team behind our co-production community of practice project, with reviewers from community organisations, reviewed freely available training.

🔗Read what they found in their blog:

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Training for community-based researchers: learning, enabling and empowering - ARC West
As part of our co-production community of practice project, the team reviewed training aimed at community-based researchers with 4 reviewers from community organisations. Here they blog about what the...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country!
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Here are our 25 most popular newsletter stories from 2025:
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What a variety!
Scroll to the end to see the top-most clicked-on stories
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NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. Applied Research Collaborations. Top 25 stories of 2025.
January 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM