#CTD2021 This year has showcased the power of science, research and clinical trials

A warm welcome to Blackpool NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈 who have just been opened to recruitment for TOPIC2 Looking forward to your first recruit!

Thank you so much to our dedicated sites POMCTN

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Very pleased to welcome St. Bart's to the TOPIC2 family as our newest recruiting site 👏

Delighted to announce Blackpool has just recruited it's 1st patient to TOPIC2 🎉 well done team!

We are holding a TOPIC2 Investigator Meeting 15th Dec 1pm. If you are research team member at site and would like to join please email [email protected] or if you're interesting in attending to find out more about the trial get in touch! POMCTN ACTACC Association of Anaesthetists

Top recruiters in the TOPIC2 .really proud of our team Well done Rebecca Boyles and thank you to the Surgical and Anaesthetic colleagues!@ItapsTeam RRCV & ESM - UHL Leicester's Hospitals University of Leicester

A very warm welcome to John Radcliffe Hospital our newest recruiting site. Welcome to the TOPIC2 family! OUH

Thank you to all our sites POMCTN ACTACC

Well done to Glenfield Hospital who are the highest recruiters to TOPIC2 and have now recruited over 100 patients Sridhar Rathinam 🇮🇳🇬🇧 Research at Leicester's Hospitals 🏆🥇

Well done to the research team led by Sridhar Rathinam 🇮🇳🇬🇧 at Glenfield Hospital which is the highest recruiting site to TOPIC2, a UK-wide study comparing two types of anaesthetic used during a thoracotomy to see which reduces chronic pain most 6 months after the operation. 1/4

3/4 Mr Rathinam: “We believe the trial will truly make a difference for patients needing open chest surgery. My thanks to the UHL surgical team, who introduce the study to patients in the clinic, and the research nurse, who follows up each patient.” #thoracicsurgery #TeamUHL

4/4 Thank you to over 100 patients who consented to #BePartOfResearch for this important #NIHR-funded research. #thoracicsurgery #TeamUHL

Current recruitment to TOPIC2 if you are not already participating and would like to contribute to the trial to help achieve our target please email [email protected] we need your help! POMCTN ACTACC Cardiothoracic Interdisciplinary Research Network

𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 Keith Anderson Alan Macfarlane Pleasure to team up with Alan Macfarlane & Keith Anderson on this one. Congratulations to #PROSPECT on another insightful clinical guideline 👏🏻 👏🏻. Incredible we still don’t know the best answer to these basic questions yet, work still to do! ACTACC EACTAIC TOPIC2

#RedforResearch what a better way to celebrate ⁦Leicester's Hospitals⁩ ⁦Research at Leicester's Hospitals⁩ ⁦Glenfield Thoracic Surgery⁩ commitment to research still leading the recruitment in ⁦TOPIC2⁩

Well done to all our hardworking sites! 👏 POMCTN Association of Anaesthetists Royal College of Anaesthetists SCTS UK

Slowly slowly edgeing towards the target in spite of recruitment stalling during #Covid19 in the TOPIC2 Proud to see Leicester's Hospitals Research at Leicester's Hospitals University of Leicester leading the recruitment. Thanks to the Team and Welldone Becca

Less than 100 participants to hit target! Thank you to all our incredible sites POMCTN Association of Anaesthetists