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Bristol Health Partners
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We're the Academic Health Science Centre for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We're passionate about #evidence, #improvement and #equity in health and care. If you are too, please follow us.
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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
Great conversations and a real buzz in the room! Thanks to everyone who came along to Conference this year.

Full story and more photos: www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/news/2025-co...

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October 31, 2025 at 10:48 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.
More➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfyyvf2 @nihr.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Great to be with colleagues at this year's @bristolhealthp.bsky.social conference. Fantastic programme celebrating the work of the health partnership & Health Integration Teams.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Always an insightful and inspiring day at the @bristolhealthp.bsky.social annual conference #BHPconference25 Fantastic opportunity to network and develop collaborative ideas. We are looking forward to sharing the work of the Bladder and Bowel CONfidence HIT (BABCON) this afternoon.
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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We're delighted to be part of the @bristolhealthp.bsky.social annual conference #BHPconference25.
So many organisations coming together to improve health and care.
We're proud to havd a table here today - come and say hello and chat about research! 👋
Today is our biggest ever conference!
Welcome to delegates from the region, alongside guests from @kingshealth.bsky.social
@au.dk @aau.dk

If you’re here with us today, post your thoughts using #BHPconference25
We’ll repost as many as we can.
October 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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We're delighted to be flying the flag for the Centre for Health and Clinical Research @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social at today's conference #BHPconference25.
A packed room full of organisations, here to make a difference in health and care.
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today is our biggest ever conference!
Welcome to delegates from the region, alongside guests from @kingshealth.bsky.social
@au.dk @aau.dk

If you’re here with us today, post your thoughts using #BHPconference25
We’ll repost as many as we can.
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"The programme gave me a new lease on life."

A Bristol hospitals Pain Management group is helping people in and around Weston-supe-Mare who live with chronic pain turn their lives around.

www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/news/westons...
Weston’s pilot programme puts chronic pain patients first - Bristol Health Partners
A mother who has lived with chronic back pain for a decade has described a new pain management group in Weston-super-Mare, run by University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW), a...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:21 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
A brilliant example of why our #HealthIntegrationTeams are so effective!

Bringing organisations together to help people like Howard, who are affected by stroke, go back to work.

@sironacic.bsky.social @bristolafterstroke.bsky.social

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Pioneering group helping stroke survivors get back to work - Bristol Health Partners
A ground-breaking group in Bristol is helping stroke survivors prepare for returning to work. Sirona‘s Integrated Community Stroke Service piloted eight weekly group sessions as part of its rehabilita...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
By sharing their lived experience with us, Carl and Chrissy help researchers and service providers improve mental health services in the region. Find out more about what they do and why they do it #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD2025

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“I’m proud of us both for being involved” - Bristol Health Partners
After performing with the ACTA theatre company in 2024, Carl and Chrissy became Bristol Health Partners public contributors, providing their lived experience of mental health challenges to our Self-ha...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📢Digital Health Community Innovators
Do you have a challenge or idea that could improve health in your community using digital approaches? We’re looking for people with lived experience or community or grassroots involvement to share real-world problems that could be tackled with digital tools.
September 12, 2025 at 11:50 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.

👉 bit.ly/3KkSO1s
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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🧠 Mental health literacy found to be a key factor in how CBT for depression works.

New research by @charlotte-archer.bsky.social & colleagues published in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

📰Read the news: tinyurl.com/y5kmv6jj

#MentalHealth #CBT #Depression #HealthLiteracy

@nihrspcr.bsky.social
2025: Mental health literacy found to be a key factor in how CBT for depression works | Centre for Academic Primary Care | University of Bristol
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September 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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📰News!📰Local pharmacies have a key role to play in stopping the spread of #HIV. A new briefing from @policybristol.bsky.social says they should help raise awareness & offer access to PrEP—a daily pill that protects against HIV. More➡️ bit.ly/4pvrhdI @jhorwood.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
📢 In our latest newsletter, out today:

➡️ Explore our partnership's impact in the last year
➡️ Catch Common Ambition Bristol on the BBC
➡️ Find out about research into helping older people stay active

Read: mailchi.mp/bristolhealt...
Subscribe: www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/newsletter/
September 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
💈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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September 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“Looking after your sexual health is really important.”

Great to hear Matt from Common Ambition Bristol on BBC Bristol Breakfast Show today, talking #HIV awareness, testing and treatment for #SexualHealthWeek #SHW25

If you missed it, you can listen again from 7.23. t.co/hLVf6G8kYt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_bristol?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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September 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🎨Join our webinar 'Building ideas: Using creative and inclusive techniques in research' on 6 Nov

🖍️Discover how creative methods, from LEGO to drawing, can transform research.

🤓Researchers will share practical examples, insights and ethical reflections

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Building ideas: Using creative and inclusive techniques in research
Join us for a webinar exploring how creative methods can be used in research, with practical examples and reflections from researchers.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🙌🏽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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📢 The Bristol Health Partners 2024/25 Impact Review is now live!

This review highlights the collaborative work making real impact across the region 🌉

It's so great to see UWE Bristol’s contributions featured alongside so many partners working to improve health and wellbeing in the West of England.
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
August 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
If you only read one thing in our Impact Review this year, make it this! ⬇️

Thank you to our public contributors Carl and Chrissy for reflecting so honestly on the power of bringing lived experience into academic spaces. #PPI #mentalhealth

www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/about/impact...
“I’m proud of us both for being involved” - Bristol Health Partners
After performing with the ACTA theatre company in 2024, Carl and Chrissy became Bristol Health Partners public contributors, providing their lived experience of mental health challenges to our Self-ha...
www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk
July 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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.”
➡️ bit.ly/4oh4zFI #WorldHepatitisDay @nihr.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM