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📢 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...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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📢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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November 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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📢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.
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New website launch
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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📣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/
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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❓ 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
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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“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.

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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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October 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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

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September 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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🌟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

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CLARITY PAD study team holding a certificate for recruiting 50 patients and box of chocolates.
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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💈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
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September 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🙌🏽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.

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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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August 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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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
July 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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📰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.”
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Pregnant woman
July 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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
July 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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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July 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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"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.

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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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June 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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📢Do you work in the field of #vaccinations?
Get your ticket now for:
🎫 #JITSUVAX presents the Empathetic Refutational Interview (ERI) – a new approach to vaccine conversations
18 Sep 9:30-5
📍Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science & the Arts, Brussels
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June 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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📢Are you a research, health or outreach worker in the field of #vaccines & #communication? Get your ticket now for:
🎫Improving vaccine conversations in a world of misinformation: A day of discussion, networking & knowledge exchange.
9 July, 9:30-4:30 @ Bristol DT Hilton
▶️https://bit.ly/4n80brK
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June 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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@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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£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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June 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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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June 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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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
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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June 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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
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June 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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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
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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June 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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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
May 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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📣#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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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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May 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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🌟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
May 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM