Mary Lynch, Senior Midwife Co-ordinator at NBT, has recently been awarded an MSc. She highlights the realities of pursuing a Master’s while working and balancing her personal life. My Master's was on non-pharmacological strategies for coping with...
Rachel is a Nurse Educator at North Bristol NHS Trust. She is a new researcher currently doing an internship year spending one day a week looking at end-of-life care within critical care and hopes it will lead to a pre-doctoral Award. She explains how she has been supported by the NBT R&D team to develop her research career and apply for funding.
The Maternity Research Community Programme at North Bristol NHS Trust provides the Women & Children's Research Team with the opportunity to deliver short sessions in local antenatal classes.
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...
