Dementia HIT News

Bristol Health Partners' contribution to Digital Bristol Week

  • 8th November 2017
Bristol Health Partners took part in two events as part of Digital Bristol Week 2017.…

The winners of the Bristol Health and Care Awards 2017

  • 31st October 2017
The city’s heroes of healthcare were recognised at a sparkling event hosted by the Bristol…

Ground-breaking foreign-language films about dementia launched by Bristol-based partnership

  • 2nd August 2017
A Bristol-based partnership has launched an innovative series of short films in six different languages…

More participants needed to complete UK-led Alzheimer’s disease drug trial

  • 17th July 2017
People with Alzheimer’s disease are already helping with a ground-breaking government-funded trial led by academics…

Largest study to date finds autism alone does not increase risk of violent offending

  • 1st June 2017
A diagnosis of autism alone does not increase the risk of violent offending suggests a…

Successes of the Dementia HIT in 2016-17

  • 8th May 2017
Sue Wensley, Elizabeth Coulthard and Emma Moody, Directors of the Dementia Health Integration Team (HIT),…

NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre: £21 million research partnership launches

  • 3rd April 2017
A £21 million National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) in Bristol…

Bristol academic awarded the Kieran Sweeney Prize

  • 31st March 2017
Dr Trevor Thompson, GP and Head of Teaching at the Centre for Academic Primary Care,…

HITs bring nearly £4m in funding to the region in last nine months

  • 27th March 2017
Health Integration Teams (HITs) have brought £3,988,121 of funding to the region since July 2016.…

Department of Health launches dementia survey

  • 4th December 2016
The Department of Health have launched a ‘Dementia: care, support and awareness’ survey.

Listen out for HITs on Bristol Community Radio

  • 23rd November 2016
Bristol Health Partners and our Health Integration Teams will be the focus of a special…