Heading to ICTMC 2026 and want to learn how to better design early-phase studies with RCTs in mind? Join us at our pre-conference workshop...! @daisyelliott.bsky.social @bristolbrc.bsky.social @quintet-group.bsky.social

📢 Join us at #ICTMC2026 for our interactive workshop: 🔗 More information and registration: ictmc.org/workshop-pro...

Feasibility trials should watch, listen + adapt, not just measure outcomes, according to a paper setting out a practical model for feasibility studies of complex, invasive devices. News story👇 www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/feasibility-... Paper👇 doi.org/10.1186/s408...

Feasibility trials should watch, listen and adapt—not just measure outcomes, Bristol researchers say - Bristol Biomedical Research Centre

Research from NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Bristol and Southmead Hospital suggests early studies assessing innovative invasive devices should: Embed qualitative observation and stakeholder intervi...

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Delighted to be part of this exciting work with Alex and colleagues. A great eg of what can happen when patients, BRCs, clinical teams and industry work together to support safe, transparent and efficient surgical innovation in the NHS.

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🚨New project! Optimising how a first-in-human device for knee replacement is introduced ASCENT is a new device for partial knee replacement. It's intended to achieve better function/longevity than existing devices + it's ready to be tested in humans. More👇 www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/optimising-h...

Our @bristolbrc.bsky.social team are excited to be at the @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social Future of Surgery conference this week. Looking forward to discussions about important topics like AI, surgical innovation, inclusivity, and decision-making #FoFS

Our new paper: doi.org/10.1111/1471... We followed the introduction of uterine transplantation in the UK for over six years. Using a range of qualitative methods, this case study captures how complex surgical innovation unfolds in practice. An incredible project to be part of.

We are keen to understand how equity, diversity, and inclusion are considered in early phase surgical studies: shorturl.at/dfjlM This will inform our work on generating incremental evidence, so that findings can be relevant to a wider populations. Such a complex but important area.

A scoping review of equality, diversity and inclusion reporting in early-phase surgical research - Bristol Biomedical Research Centre

Researchers often conduct early studies when new types of surgery are being developed. They test the procedure’s safety and explore its promise to improve outcomes. Studies are designed with a small n...

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Are you interested in an academic surgical career in #Bristol? Have you completed a PhD or equivalent? Apply now to be an #academic #clinical #lecturer in #general surgery www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Excited for the second day of the NIHR #CRFBRC25 conference @bristolbrc.bsky.social @bristol-csr.bsky.social

💥 Our ground-breaking study, with patients, doctors, ethicists, policy leads and lawyers, shows what patients need to know about surgical innovation 💥 👀https://shorturl.at/G3BSD 📖 shorturl.at/7aMR5

📢Published today in the British Journal of Surgery New ground-breaking study by Christin Hoffman, Daisy Elliott, @leilarooshenas.bsky.social, Cynthia Ochieng, Barry Main, Pete Wheatstone, Samuel Lawday, Abigail Vallance, Jane M Blazeby and Angus G K McNair Read the full paper: bit.ly/4lrzZHp

Information standards for innovative surgery: what patients need to know

International public inquiries into patient safety with regard to surgical innovation identified deficiencies in information provision and informed consent

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📢 The first-ever info guide to support and protect patients considering pioneering, but also potentially risky, surgery 🧑‍⚕️It sets out clearly what surgeons must tell patients before they undergo new procedures www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/internationa... #PelvicMesh #WomensHealth #PatientSafety

International experts and patients unite to help ensure all patients are fully informed before consenting to new surgical procedures - Bristol Biomedical Research Centre

Leading doctors, researchers, and lawyers have joined forces with patient representatives and created the first-ever information guide to better support and protect patients across the world who are c...

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Recorded consultations are here to stay, but the current ad hoc approach leaves clinicians and patients vulnerable. Clear guidance is necessary as recording of consultations becomes the norm, write @azeem-majeed.bsky.social and Waseem Jerjes www.bmj.com/content/390/...

🆕🆕🆕🆕 ❓AIM: How are modifications reported in IDEAL-cited papers? 🤯RESULTS: Only 68% of Stage 2a and 33% of Stage 2b reported ANY modifications. Within this, huge variation/inconsistencies. 🤓READ: shorturl.at/HCMGJ ⏭️NEXT: We have developed a checklist to report modifications in surgical innovation