Congratulations to Ankur Thapar & team Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust for randomising their 1st PLACEMENT participant today!✨Every randomisation helps towards our goal of understanding the most effective form of post-operative pain relief for people who have undergone leg amputation surgery.

Congratulations to our CI Dave Bosanquet & the Cardiff and Vale Research Delivery Team team Cardiff and Vale University Health Board for randomising the 78th, 79th & 80th PLACEMENT participants! This is a huge milestone to reach before the end of our internal pilot. How close to 90 can we get before Thursday? CTRCardiffUni Nicola Ivins

Congrats Sandip Nandhra & the Newcastle Hospitals Research team@NewcastleHosps for randomising their 2nd PLACEMENT participant & Swansea Bay NHS for randomising the 20th participant this month!🎉 Today's the last day of our 8-month internal pilot🤩A huge thanks to all for your support so far!💐

Thanks to the 82 participants randomised in our pilot!🤩We're grateful for your time & the PIs, APIs, Research Nurses, Study Coordinators, Surgeons, Anaesthetists, Registrars, R&D & Pain teams involved🌟Research is a true #teamsport🙌Our next goals are randomisation #90 & #100!💫

Thank you to Chris Davies & the team Swansea Bay NHS for accommodating Dave Bosanquet & Dr Grace Young visit this morning - It's always lovely catching up in real life 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Swansea were straight back to work this afternoon with another randomisation - our 85th trial participant!

📢📢📢A long-standing PLACEMENT record has finally been broken this month... 🥁🥁🥁 Chris Davies & the Vascular Research team Swansea Bay NHS are the 1st site to randomise 6 participants in 1 month! Congratulations to all involved 🎉🎉🎉 Chris Davies Amy Alex Williams

Thanks to Chris Twine & the NBT-SurgicalResearch team North Bristol NHS Trust & Daniel Carradice & the VascularHull team Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for their PLACEMENT randomisations this week 👏👏 We look forward to a productive July from all of our brilliant #NHS colleagues #NHSBirthday #NHS76 🥳🫶

Congratulations Graeme Ambler & Aminder Singh & team at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS for randomising their 1st & 2nd PLACEMENT participants!👏 We are delighted to have Cambridge as an active site. Congratulations also to Aminder for registering for the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator scheme😃

Congratulations to the unstoppable Swansea Bay NHS for randomising their 🔟th PLACEMENT participant!🎉Chris Davies Amy Alex Williams🌟This is a huge achievement for the team in their first 4 months of recruitment. Diolch to all for your continued support of the trial 💐

Congratulations to Sandip Nandhra & team Newcastle Hospitals for their 3rd PLACEMENT randomisation; Nikesh Dattani & team Leicester's Hospitals for their 🔟th randomisation & Daniel Carradice & the VascularHull team Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for randomising their 24th participant this week! 👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌟🥳

Congratulations to PI Ankur Thapar API Rico Boyce & team at Basildon University Hospital Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust for randomising their 2nd & 3rd PLACEMENT participants over the weekend! We now have 97 participants, just 3 short of our first💯! Guess what our goal for the week is?😃🤞🤩

What an amazing 24 hours! Daniel Carradice & VascularHull Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust randomised their 25th participant, Sandip Nandhra & Newcastle Hospitals Research randomised their 5th participant & Ankur Thapar & Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust randomised the 100th PLACEMENT participant! Congratulations to all🎉🥳🙌

It was a privilege to go to the inaugural EMRAG conference 'Trust Matters. No one is hard to reach' University of South Wales We couldn't be prouder of our wonderful PPI member, Sian, sharing her valuable insights on community outreach with Health and Care Research Wales Senior Public Involvement Manager🤩

Congratulations Graeme Ambler Aminder Singh & team at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS for randomising their 5th & 6th participants & Chris Davies & team Swansea Bay NHS for randomising their 12th participant in August🤩 Welcome to Iain Roy & team St George's NHS FT our most recent site to be activated!😃

Following our successful internal pilot we have now received official confirmation from the NIHR to continue with progression to the main trial! Thank you to all our TMG, TSC, IDMC, PPI Advisory group, NHS PIs & research staff, the CTR team & most importantly our participants!🎉

Congratulations to Iain Roy & team St George's NHS FT for randomising their first 2 participants, Ankur Thapar & team Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust for randomising their 5th participant & Chris Twine & NBT-SurgicalResearch team North Bristol NHS Trust for randomising their 23rd participant this week!🤩🥳

Welcome to the PLACEMENT team George Antoniou and team at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust MFT NHS who had their Site Initiation Visit yesterday. We look forward to activating your site soon!

As the end of the summer months approach, August has been quiet for the trial so far, with less than half the number of participants randomised compared with June & July. Please remember to consider PLACEMENT when consenting patients for major lower limb amputation surgery😇

Congratulations to Chris Twine & the NBT-SurgicalResearch team North Bristol NHS Trust for randomising their 25th participant today!🥳 Only 1 other site (our top recruiters VascularHull) have achieved this milestone so far🤩 A huge thanks to all our active sites for their ongoing support🥰

Congratulations to Chris Twine NBT-SurgicalResearch North Bristol NHS Trust for randomising the 1st September participant & their 26th in total. Bristol are now joint highest recruiters with Daniel Carradice VascularHull Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Who will be top of table at the end of the month? 👀