We now have 11 of our 20 sites greenlighted and with 34 patients recruited, it’s full steam ahead! NorthumbriaNHS still top the leaderboard with 13 patients recruited, but Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT are in hot pursuit with 9. Who will be our next site open to recruitment?

CONSEPT is officially open to recruitment! 🎉Congratulations to Steve Walker and the team at North Bristol NHS Trust We can't wait for you to recruit your first patient! 🫁🟢#GreenLight #CollapsedLung #ClinicalTrials Research at North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol Academic Respiratory Unit Bristol Trials Centre

What a month May has been! 10 (TEN!) randomisations is record beating! Absolutely top work from everyone! Special thanks to teams in Sheffield duneesha de fonseka Eihab Bedawi STHResearch&Innovation and Preston Janet Mills Lancashire Teaching R&I for both randomising patients today.

Jumping into June with a double randomisation day! Fantastic work from teams in Preston Lancashire Teaching R&I Janet Mills and Sheffield duneesha de fonseka Eihab Bedawi STHResearch&Innovation who both randomised patients today, bringing our total to 75!

🌟Congratulations to the team in Stoke UHNM NHS Trust 🏥 UHNM Research for randomising their 10th participant today! 🌟 Four patients enrolled in 2 days! Cracking work from everyone involved. Thanks to all the patients and their carers, without whom none of this would be possible.

Great to see updates from LISP Study - one if our first projects to be selected by respiratory trainees. Well done team! #RespIsBest

Congrats to Dr Geri Lynch from Bristol Academic Respiratory Unit for winning the oral presentation prize at the UK Pleural Society Research Day for her excellent presentation on the clinical and pathological features associated with survival and disease progression in #mesothelioma!!

Today is #worldpneumothoraxday ! Currently lots of exciting research seeking to improve management & outcomes in spontaneous and traumatic pneumothoraces CoMiTED Trial Consept Trial PRINCE-SSP TRIAL thanks to Steve Walker Edd Carlton Rob Hallifax and their teams! Watch this space!

Steve Walker Nick maskell Eleanor Barton of Bristol Academic Respiratory Unit provided 'Expert Review on Spontaneous #Pneumothorax' - an area of advances but also debates + controversies. PMID37321247. Part of the #Pleural Review Series in Semin Resp Crit Care Med 2023. #MedTwitter #MedEd #POCUS

It’s finally here. The British Thoracic Society (BTS) Pleural Diseases Guideline brit-thoracic.org.uk/document-libra…. Also includes clinical statement on pleural procedures.

And that’s a full house!! We now have all 20 sites up and running thanks to the hard work of their R&D teams and the LISP study management team. 116 patients recruited so far, let’s see how many we can get!

Last chance to vote for BTS President brit-thoracic.org.uk/membership/bts… Strongly recommend this legend to champion the BTS in 2024!

Hull are on fire! 🔥 Their second randomisation in less than a week! Fantastic work by the team Hull Emergency Department Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 🎉 Leading the way for Consept Trial #ClinicalTrials #CollapsedLung 🫁

We are so close to achieving our target of 124 patients randomised, with 8 participants left to recruit! Which of our centres will find the next TACTIC participant?! 🤔

Today we have completed recruitment to the TACTIC trial, with the 124th participant randomised by the Bristol team Bristol Academic Respiratory Unit Research at North Bristol NHS Trust Congratulations to ALL the research teams, PIs, patients and carers who have helped us to reach this milestone.

🌟Come and join the fantastic pleural team at Southmead! 🌟 If you’re a respiratory SPR and have in interest in pleural diseases this is an opportunity not to be missed!

This educational ERS review gives up-to-date guidance on the acute management of spontaneous pneumothorax, including the role of conservative or ambulatory management. It also discusses persistent air leak and the role of surgery for recurrence prevention. bit.ly/3M0njaT

Who wants to come & work with our fantastic team?! We are recruiting for a respiratory clinical research fellow ST3+ to complete a PhD in lung cancer early diagnosis and screening. 3 year fixed-term post, ideal for OOPR. jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba… UK Pleural Society RespFutures Trainees PRISM_SW

There’s just over a week to go until Nick maskell’s big cycling challenge for Mesothelioma UK. Nick has pushed on with training despite a broken wrist, gale-force storms and full-time clinical work. Support his hard work (and donate to a fantastic charity) here justgiving.com/page/nick-mask…