Sharon’s husband, John, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Prostate Cancer in early 2023. She shares what it was like to support him through his diagnosis, treatment and research journey.
North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) has become the first NHS Trust to sign the Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice. Developed by the UK research and innovation sector, the voluntary concordat ‘represents a...
£7 million of additional funding for research into Parkinson’s disease has been secured thanks to investment from Southmead Hospital Charity supporters. In 2022, donations totalling £220,000, including a £99,954 pledge from Medlock Charitable Trust...
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...
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, 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.
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...
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 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.
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...
