Our departing COO Lisa King has been Bristol Health Partners’ longest-serving team member, with nearly nine years at the partnership. She reflects on some of the highlights. I had taken a year out to travel with my now husband when, in an internet cafÃ...
A new University of Bristol and NIHR ARC West study (the RECON project), supported by Bristol Health Partners, is examining the impact of remote consultations on the healthcare workforce. Researchers are inviting primary and secondary care clinicians that...
Researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) are to begin a new study exploring the impact of racism on the mental health and wellbeing of 10 to 11-year olds.The project, funded by the mental health research network Emerging Minds, i...
Students’ experiences in earlier stages of education may lead to increased levels of psychological distress and fewer skills to help them cope at university, reveals a UK study published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology.The study led by...
Our long-standing Active Older People Health Integration Team (APPHLE HIT) has relaunched as Active Lives HIT, to better reflects its focus on the benefits of physical activity to health and wellbeing over the course of people’s lives. To coincide with...
Children and young people with severe obesity will receive intensive support with a pilot of 15 new specialist NHS services based on a clinic in Bristol. The Care of Childhood Obesity (CoCO) clinic at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children has been supp...
New research led by the University of Bristol, has shown the drug losartan, normally used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension), is not effective in slowing down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in people with mild-to-moderate disease a...
Bristol Health Partners’ Sexual Health Improvement Health Integration team (SHIP HIT) is supporting Brigstowe in a programme of events to mark World AIDS Day, 1 December 2021. The programme starts with the annual flag raising event outside City Hall...
Shane Devlin has today (Friday, 12 November 2021) been announced as the Chief Executive designate of the new Integrated Care Board (ICB) for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.The new statutory body will form part of the wider Integrated Ca...
While COP26 is underway, Bristol Walking Alliance (BWA) has launched a booklet, 50 Ways to Better Walking, to remind policy makers that encouraging walking is an important way to reduce our carbon footprint and help address the climate emergency.BWA has a...
3 December
RT @philclat: We're shaping what will be a truly excellent stroke service, and one that will continue to improve in response to the experie…
1 December
Fantastic #WorldAidsDay2021 blog from @aledoz @Brigstowe. @BristolCommon is a project working with African and Car… https://t.co/85B0I9QUU2
1 December
RT @ARC_West: 🩸Why are blood tests requested in primary care? 🤔Who requests them? 📋And what happens with the results? Our Why Test? pro…
