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LEAP Digital Health Hub @leap-dh-hub.bsky.social · 26d

📢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.

Text: Digital Health Community Innovators. Bringing lived experience to the heart of digital health research.
Images: People chatting and interacting with digital technology.

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Research at North Bristol NHS Trust @researchnbt.bsky.social · 6d

“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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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 8d

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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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 20d

🧠 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

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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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NIHR HPRU in Evaluation and Behavioural Science @hpruebs.bsky.social · 20d

📰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

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 21d

📢 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/

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 22d

💈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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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · 22d

“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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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West @arc-west.bsky.social · 23d

🎨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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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Aug 12

🙌🏽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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Research & External Engagement UWE Bristol @ree-uwe.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 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.

Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 31

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...

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 29

@uwebristolofficial.bsky.social @chcr-uwe.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @bristolbrc.bsky.social @capcbristol.bsky.social @northsomersetc.bsky.social @sgloscouncil.bsky.social @researchnbt.bsky.social @hpruebs.bsky.social

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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NIHR HPRU in Evaluation and Behavioural Science @hpruebs.bsky.social · Jul 29

📰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

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 24

@chcr-uwe.bsky.social @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @beardedjourno.bsky.social ‪@bristol247.bsky.social

Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 24

Huge congratulations to Subitha on becoming an Honorary Doctor of Science today @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social 🎓🎉

Find out about her incredible contribution to Bristol Health Partners spanning more than a decade.

www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/news/honorar...

Honorary degree for local health equity champion - Bristol Health Partners

Subitha Baghirathan, a long-standing Bristol Health Partners collaborator, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). Subitha became an Honorary Doctor...

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congratulations to everyone graduating in the next two weeks
@uwebristolofficial.bsky.social @chcr-uwe.bsky.social, including our brilliant collaborator Subitha 🙌🏿🎓

www.uwe.ac.uk/news/summer-...

Fortnight of celebrations begin at UWE Bristol's Graduation ceremonies | UWE Bristol

The university will celebrate nearly 6,000 graduates at ceremonies running over the next two weeks (21-31 July) at the Bristol Beacon.

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 21

"If you don’t know where to start, go on a walk... it's great fun and you will feel much better afterwards.”

Sophia from Bristol Steppin' Sistas gets behind #EveryMoveMatters 🚶🏽‍♀️

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"If you don’t know where to start, go on a walk" - Bristol Health Partners

Sophia has a passion for walking and in her spare time runs a walking group for Black women and women of colour in Bristol called Steppin’ Sistas. Sophia has always loved being active, at school she l...

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Bristol Health Partners @bristolhealthp.bsky.social · Jul 21

We’re supporting the South West #EveryMoveMatters campaign. Showing how moving just a little each day can build a stronger, healthier future.🚶🏾‍♀️🚴🏼💃🏿

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NHS and local councils join forces to support the Every Move Matters campaign - Bristol Health Partners

Health and care partners across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire are encouraging people to move more as part of a South West ‘Every Move Matters’ campaign launching today (Monday 21 J...

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · Jul 8

1/3 - General practice has a vital role to play in the societal response to violence against women & girls, says Prof Gene Feder & colleagues in a new @bjgp.bsky.social editorial.

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#GPSky #MedSky #VAWG #PrimaryCare

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Violence against women and girls: how can general practice respond?

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a global violation of human rights that damages health and wellbeing across the life course and across generations. Spanning domestic violence and abuse (DVA...

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · Jul 14

New study will assess the use of live video consultations during 999 calls to aid emergency dispatch decisions.

Read the news: bit.ly/4kImdyZ

#GPSky #MedSky #EmergencyCare #EmergencyMedicine

@rcem.ac.uk @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @bristolhealthp.bsky.social @gw4alliance.bsky.social

New study will assess the use of live video consultations during 999 calls to aid emergency dispatch decisions

The Welsh Ambulance Service is leading on a study into the use of live video consultations to help decision making when deploying critical care teams in response to 999 calls. The project is a collabo...

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Health Innovation West of England @healthinnowest.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Health Innovation West of England @healthinnowest.bsky.social · Jul 4

📢 We have two new job vacancies in our Evaluation and Insights team for Senior Research Evaluators - one quantitative & one mixed-methods - to help us assess the potential impact of healthcare innovations.

The closing date for both vacancies is Monday 14 July: www.healthinnowest.net/careers/job-...

A smiling brown woman is sat in what could be an interview setting, reaching her hand across the table to shake hands with another person, who we can only see partly from the back. White text on a purple background to the side reads "New job vacancies: Senior Research Evaluator (quantitative) and Senior Research Evaluator (mixed-methods). Closing date: Monday 14 July 2025."

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · Jul 2

1/3 Coming up: Life in a Coastal Town - a new free exhibition exploring #MentalHealth and community, Weston Museum, Weston-super-Mare, 8-17 July 2025.

The exhibition shares original artwork by local people exploring their experiences during some of life's toughest times.

More info: bit.ly/4ltc4H8

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