Are you preparing an #NIHR fellowship application? Would you like advice on areas such as developing a good project, training plan and #PublicInvolvement? If so, this free NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) workshop is a great opportunity 👇 forms.gle/rRTFta7VRu7bMT…

Big promises have been made for the Galleri blood test, which its maker says can detect 50+ types of cancer. The NHS is running a £150m trial of the test, but experts believe that Galleri has been overhyped and the trial is unethical, finds The BMJ bmj.com/content/386/bm…

🌟 Calling anyone with an interest in #PrimaryCare, #Rheumatology or #ComplexIntervention research 🌟 Our free online event will cover how we developed the #CobraTool through the #IDEASinPC study recently presented at #sapc24. Retweets appreciated SAPC NIHR School for Primary Care Research Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Very scary! Last piece of NON-STOP data collection completed today 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 Focus group with children with #PerthesDisease and their families telling us all about the NON-STOP app💪 Huge thanks to all participants! Now it’s NONSTOP thesis writing…😏 #AGCDRF #PhD #NIHR

Do you want to build more effective, affordable, scalable & efficient complex interventions? New training for interventionists with an interest in trials led by @sgsmith_87. 22-24 January 2025, £525 (£425 early bird). Contact [email protected] to reserve your place!

I'll be presenting our consensus recommendations for #PerthesDisease at BOA Congress later this month I'll have beautifully made recommendation posters with me, come say hi if you’d like one!👋 If you can’t make it, let me know and I’ll post you one📮 #BOAAC2024

Super excited to launch this! If you’re a UKTMN member and would benefit from trial management leadership training, apply to join the first ASPIRE programme cohort. More info below.

Our Director David Rowland on LBC News just now on the Darzi report into the NHS and the government's planned response 👇

Really excited to be working with getUBetter to: ➡️ Make the #VirtualKneeSchool available to patients awaiting #KneeReplacement ➡️ Provide a platform for future research supported by the Accelerated Surgical Care HRC National Institute for Health and Care Research Hemant Pandit ProfAnthonyRedmond Ben Foxcroft

One study found that if patients were seen by their usual GP, the time until the next consultation was 18% longer than if they saw a doctor they didn’t know. Dr Helen Salisbury looks at the relationship between continuity of care and productivity bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Our qualitative study with clinicians, children with Perthes’ Disease and their families demonstrated that there is a lack of consensus in clinical care. The paper can be viewed here: boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.130… #BOAAC24

I have plenty of clinical consensus recommendations to hand out today at BOA Please come and find me at the coffee break at 10:00 to get one for your department Let me know if you’re not at #BOAAC24 and I’ll post one out 👍

Dr. Charles Weijer discusses the potential benefits and ethical challenges associated with pragmatic and cluster RCTs. Listen to the full interview: nej.md/4ekSbP4

Sharing our new participatory research paper 'PU prevention for people with long-term neurological conditions who self-manage care and live at home' doi.org/10.1016/j.jtv.… Also check out the follow-on intervention development study fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR1631… PURSUN UK

For anyone at #ICTMC2024 Keynote by Linda M. Collins My colleagues at University of Leeds are running a 3-day in-person training course in January 2025. You can book your place now 😊

A website of resources about the STEP UP project on strategies trialists can use to promote equal participation in clinical trials for under-served populations is at: step-up-clinical-trials.co.uk ..and a paper describing how it was developed is just out: bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🌟Brilliant opportunity to learn more about #ComplexIntervention evaluations 🌟 Online teaching delivered by Leeds CTRU members. Topics covered include #ComplexIntervention frameworks, #FeasibilityStudies, #ProcessEvaluations and much more!

Great example of a complex #InterventionDevelopment project from Dr Amy Barradell, Prof Hilary Bekker (PhD), Linzy Houchen-Wolloff and team. Involved iterative #Qualitative methods and a combination of frameworks related to #ComplexInterventions and #SharedDecisionMaking journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Early in my career, I attended my first ‘brainstorming’ event. And it was a pointless three hours that generated nothing new, nothing innovative, nothing that was going to make a difference. It was framed with the senior leader’s ideas that shut down any potential for divergent