Stroke HIT News

Honorary degree for local health equity champion

  • 24th July 2025
Subitha Baghirathan, a long-standing Bristol Health Partners collaborator, has been awarded an honorary degree by…

Impact Review 2024-25: Stroke HIT

  • 19th July 2025
Supporting stroke patients with vision impairment The HIT’s Education and Training workstream delivered a hugely…

Film supports those working with people affected by stroke

  • 30th January 2025
Bristol Health Partners’ Stroke Health Integration Team (HIT) and the University of the…

Event explores ways to support stroke patients with vision impairment

  • 4th December 2024
Sixty people joined a free event at the University of the West of England (UWE…

Stroke HIT welcomes new co-director

  • 22nd November 2024
The Stroke Health Integration Team (HIT) is pleased to welcome Claire Fullbrook-Scanlon as a…

Incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination, finds study of 46 million adults

  • 31st July 2024
A new study involving nearly the whole adult population of England has found that…

New study identifies two proteins that may contribute to stroke recurrence

  • 22nd July 2024
The study discovered genetic markers in inflammation that may be related to a second stroke…

Stroke HIT 2023-24

  • 5th July 2024
Providing training and education Training and education both for people who have had a stroke…

Stroke HIT and partners' event explores ways to support stroke patients returning to work

  • 22nd November 2023
Sixty people joined a free event at the University of the West of England (UWE…

Changes to stroke services implemented

  • 17th May 2023
Changes to stroke services, designed and agreed through the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire…

Natasha Swinscoe: Connecting the dots between research and innovation

  • 4th April 2023
The mission of the West of England Academic Health Science Network (or AHSN for…