Bristol Bones and Joints
Bristol Bones and Joints Health Integration Team (HIT) was set up to help patients cope with health conditions that affect their bones and joints.
Our aim is to bring together patients, researchers, health professionals and organisations that offer care and support; and to share information and resources across the region.
Latest news and events
28 January 2022
Our team welcomed two new members at the end of 2021 and start of 2022 as Connie Shiridzinomwa and Heidi Andrews joined as Senior Project Managers. Heidi is with us two days per week, working with the Sexual Health Improvement Programme and Kidney Dise...
27 January 2022
With one in five people experiencing ongoing pain long after knee replacement surgery, new research, led by the University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and published in The Lancet Rheumatology, has shown a way to help reduce people’s con...
16 December 2021
The Bristol Bones and Joints Health Integration Team (HIT) hosted by Bristol Health Partners is delighted to welcome two new co-directors to its leadership team. Dr Andrew Moore is a University of Bristol Research Fellow specialising in musculoskeletal h...
20 July 2021
Co-directors Emma Dures and Sanchit Mehendale recap Bristol Bones and Joints HIT highlights from 2020 -21. This year, we have created new self-management support resources that patients can access via the rheumatology pages of the North Bristol NHS Tru...
20 October 2020
Bristol Health Partners held its annual Health Integration Team (HIT) Conference as an entirely virtual event this year because of the pandemic. The event, “COVID-19 Call to Action: What else can we achieve in health and social care?”, took place b...
21 May 2020
The rheumatology service teams from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust have been awarded 'Best Practice' awards by the British Society of Rheumatology (BSR).The awards celebrate an innovative or parti...
6 May 2020
Directors Associate Professor Emma Dures and Mr Sanchit Mehendale provide an update on the 2019-20 activity of the Bristol Bones and Joints Health Integration Team (HIT). The Bristol Bones and Joints HIT is a large and diverse team made up of patients, he...
6 November 2019
Two of our HITS - Integrated Pain Management and Bristol Bones and Joints - have been working together to redesign how we plan and deliver chronic pain services, as part of Healthier Together’s wider reconfiguration of musculoskeletal services. The co...
5 June 2019
Bristol Health Partners Health Integration Teams (HITs) have attracted nearly £2.9 million in research funding to Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire during 2018-19, for nearly 40 different projects.
15 May 2019
Directors Dr Emma Clark, Associate Professor Emma Dures and Mr Sanchit Mehendale give an update on the 2018-19 activity of the Bristol Bones and Joints Health Integration Team (HIT)....
13 May 2019
Bristol Health Partners Health Integration Teams (HITs) ran an event in April for ‘informal’ carers who provide substantial, unpaid care and support for family members or friends.
12 October 2018
On Wednesday 3 October, Health Integration Teams (HITs) with a focus on healthy, safe environments got together for a networking breakfast at Lifeskills at the CREATE Centre in South Bristol.
