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Study Recruitment Success for Surgical and Renal Teams

Two study teams have had recent national and global patient recruitment success. The Surgical research team recruited the first UK patient to the European Aortic Data Collection project on 7 June – within one day of being open to recruitment. This is...
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NBT rises to 6th place for Research Capability Funding

NBT was awarded £1.25m Research Capability Funding (RCF) from the Department of Health and Social Care for 2024/25. This allocation puts NBT in 6th position out of 257 NHS Trusts in England. This is our highest position to date and up from 9th...
Dr Matt Thomas

My Role in Research: Dr Matt Thomas, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

Dr Matt Thomas, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at North Bristol Trust and Local Specialty Research Lead at the NIHR Clinical Research Network West of England, shares his experience of working in research.
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Claire Lanfear awarded a NIHR Pre-Application Support Fund

Claire, a Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse specialist, based in the Plastics & Dermatology team has recently been awarded a NIHR Pre-Application Support Fund. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) launched this new scheme to provide...
My Role In Research - Professor Edd Carlton, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine NBT & University of Bristol Medical School

My Role In Research - Professor Edd Carlton, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine NBT & University of Bristol Medical School

Professor Edd Carlton is a Clinical Academic Consultant and has expertise in conducting research in emergency settings. He joined North Bristol NHS Trust in 2015 and his research interests are broad, including injury, treatment of infection and diagnostics.
Ruth, Physiotherapist

My Role in Research – Ruth, Physiotherapist

Ruth is an extended scope physiotherapist in the Foot & Ankle team at Southmead. She shares why she moved into a research role and how she’s been supported to study and grow.
My Role in Research:  Sally - Research Administrator

My Role in Research: Sally, Research Administrator, Women & Children's

Sally is a Research Administrator in the Women & Children’s team. She explains how she found joining research after 10 years on the wards, and how she wishes she had joined research earlier. My role day-to-day is varied. I don't have a day that's the...
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Chloe's Story: Taking Part in a Drug Trial

Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) is a very rare genetic condition. It affects around 1 in 50,000 people*. We interviewed Chloe to find out about her experience of taking part in a drug study. My body does not recognise when to stop swelling Living with a...
Liz Goff My Role In Research

My Role in Research – Elizabeth Goff, Research Administrator, Emergency and Critical Care

Elizabeth Goff has been a Research Administrator in the Emergency and Critical Care Research team since August 2017. She appreciates how her role offers variety and challenge while fitting around her family commitments.
Alan Uren –  Specialist Clinical Researcher

My Role in Research: Alan Uren – Specialist Clinical Researcher

Dr Alan Uren is a Specialist Clinical Researcher who has worked at the Bristol Urological Institute for more than 10 years. He had a varied career before taking a research role, including working as a professional musician.