Welcome to the Pain Management Service resources page.
We have made all of our information sheets, videos and recordings available so that people who have taken part in our Pain Managmenet courses can access them easily.
You can find our relaxation recordings here: www.nbt.nhs.uk/relaxation
You can find our exercise videos here: www.nbt.nhs.uk/exercise
GMC number: 6145675
Year of first qualification: 2006, University of Bristol
Specialty: Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endoscopy
Clinical interest: Hepatology, General Gastroenterology including Functional and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Endoscopy
Secretary: Joanne Hartry
Tel: 0117 4146499
Dr Ankur Srivastava graduated from the University of Bristol in 2006 and completed his specialist training in London. He participated in doctoral (PhD) studies at the University College London, with whom he maintains an affiliation, and the Royal Free liver transplant unit with a focus on earlier detection of chronic liver disease.
Dr Srivastava is a GMC registered gastroenterologist and hepatologist with interests in inflammatory bowel disease, liver transplant medicine and advanced hepatology. Dr Srivastava returned to Bristol as a consultant in 2018. He is a general gastroenterologist, hepatologist and endoscopist working in a large multi-disciplinary team. He has a sub-specialist interest in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and alcoholic liver disease. He is a member of the BASL NAFLD special interest group (SIG). The department has developed close links with Kings College London liver transplant unit with the majority of pre- and post- transplant care conducted in North Bristol.
Dr Srivastava is leading the trusts accreditation in the Royal College of Physicians ‘Improving Quality in Liver Services” process. This is a national quality improvement project to document and improve all aspects of patient care including leadership and operational delivery, clinical effectiveness and involving patients in service development. He has also helped develop a rapid access clinic for patients suffering significant flares of their inflammatory bowel disease.
Dr Srivastava is the research lead for Gastroenterology at the trust with an expanding and diverse research portfolio. Dr Srivastava is principle investigator at the trust for a commercial drug trial for patients with NAFLD. He is sub-investigator for a number of trials in inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease and endoscopy and has published over 5 peer reviewed journal articles in the past few years.
Please note, our software suggestions are not supported by NBT, and should not be loaded onto NBT computers. They are recommended for personal use only. Software provided by your Higher Education Institution (HEI) should also be used if you have access to it.
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West offers a range of training opportunities over the year including:
You can apply for this via the ARC West website. This site also has links to short training courses that local universities offer.
Open University – Succeeding at postgraduate study
Open University – Postgraduate study skills in science, technology or mathematics
AcoRD – Attributing the costs of health and social care Research and Development
Future Learn – Online courses covering a range of topics
Researcher Academy – Access to countless e-learning resources designed to support researchers on every step of their research journey
Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE) – A growing network of students from around the world, from school age to university, who are interested in learning more about evidence-based health care (EBH)
Speechbite – Rating research quality (offers a concise training tool to start you thinking about undertaking quality appraisal of papers)
PSPP – A free, open source version of SPSS
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) – A list of open source options
Open Office – A free, full office suite including Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation programmes.
Rayyan – A leading provider of collaboration and research tools that power the global research community in pursuit of accelerated scientific discovery
JASP – An open-source statistics program that is free, friendly, and flexible. Designed to be easy to use, and familiar to users of SPSS.
JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator) – Comparison tool to find the best matching journals, authors or articles on PubMed.
Explore the ground-breaking research currently taking place at North Bristol NHS Trust.
Find out more about our research and how we're working to improve patient care.
Research & Development
North Bristol NHS Trust
Level 3, Learning & Research building
Southmead Hospital
Westbury-on-Trym
Bristol, BS10 5NB
Telephone: 0117 4149330
Email: research@nbt.nhs.uk
Peer support sessions are held fortnightly in the Café area of Vu (Brunel Building), where Senior Research Associate Dr Sam Harding and other SNAHPer’s will be available to discuss the likes of project ideas, signposting different routes to career development, and how to disseminate any work that’s already been undertaken.
In addition, the group runs a series of workshops to introduce its members to different research methods and skills. Development of these sessions will be dependent on the engagement from SNAHPers and their identification of need.
Research Workshops are in ongoing development and will be available to book as they confirmed via LINK.
In addition to the workshops directly organised by R&I SNAHPers, a series of workshops co-led by the Library, Audit and Quality Improvement departments will also be made available to group members. Geared at staff who may be new to areas of investigation, these sessions aim to help move ‘Ideas into practice: Navigating your way into improved patient care’.
These workshops are currently being reformatted. Please get in touch with the Library Team via southmead.library@nbt.nhs.uk if you have any requests about what you would like to have featured in these workshops.
Explore the ground-breaking research currently taking place at North Bristol NHS Trust.
Find out more about our research and how we're working to improve patient care.
Research & Development
North Bristol NHS Trust
Level 3, Learning & Research building
Southmead Hospital
Westbury-on-Trym
Bristol, BS10 5NB
Telephone: 0117 4149330
Email: research@nbt.nhs.uk
Thornbury Outpatient Clinic is not a walk-in centre, appointments are made via GP referral only. Visiting times do not apply.
Telephone: 01454 415 750
Outpatient and community midwifery appointments, previously provided from Thornbury Hospital.
By Road
From M5 South
From M5 North
By Bus
For information on travelling by Bus to Thornbury Outpatient Clinic:
By Bicycle
The St Mary Centre has two separate cycle parking areas, where bicycles can be locked to metal cycle stands. One of these is located near to the entrance of Aldi, and the other at the northern end of the pedestrian section of St Mary Street. Dismounted bicycles can also be pushed through the St Mary Centre.
The St Mary Centre is also on Route 410, otherwise popularly known as the Avon Cycleway. Route 410, also links to other popular national cycle routes. You can find out more by visiting the Avon Cycleway website.
There are 3 local car parks with free parking:
Rock Street Car Park - Bath Rd, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 2FH
Short stay – 2 hours (between 8am – 6pm)
Long stay – 12 hours
Castle Court Car Park - 35 Castle Ct, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 2BQ
Short stay – 2 hours (between 8am – 6pm)
Long stay – 12 hours
St Mary Street Car Park - 24 St Mary St, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 2AT
Short stay – 2 hours
Thornbury Outpatient Clinic
St Mary Centre
9 Mary Street
Thornbury
BS35 2AB
United Kingdom
Bladder cancer is the tenth most common cancer in the UK. It can present in a number of ways, however the commonest presentation is with haematuria. New patients with haematuria can be referred in via the two week wait pathway under the CCG criteria. Patients will usually have a combination of a flexible cystoscopy and imaging to diagnose their bladder cancer.
Once diagnosed with bladder cancer, the patient will have the diagnosis discussed with them and will be invited to meet a cancer nurse specialist. The patient will, in most cases, then be booked for a trans-urethral resection of bladder tumour operation to remove histological tissue samples and treat the tumour.
Following this their case will be discussed at the Multi-disciplinary team meeting (Wednesdays), they will be risk stratified and then contacted with the results by our cancer nurse specialists.
Follow-up strategy and further treatment will depend a number of factors including; upon risk stratification, patient co-morbidities and patient wishes.
The bladder cancer team is:
Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer urology consultant surgeons – Miss H Burden, Mr F Qureshi and Miss K Warren
Robotic bladder cancer urology consultant surgeons – Mr J Aning, Mr A Koupparis, Mr E Rowe
Oncology Consultants – Dr A Challipalli, Dr A Bahl, Dr T Bird and Dr S Masson
The above consultant work as part of a team, including other doctors, surgeons, specialist nurses and healthcare professionals.
The BUI performs a large number of flexible cystoscopies for both diagnosis and follow-up. The department has 16 flexible cystoscopes for routine use, which are high definition and enable narrow band imaging.
Patients can be referred for a cystoscopy if they meet the two week wait cancer criteria, and in most cases will have a cystoscopy on the day of their appointment if deemed necessary. For routine cystoscopies, patients are normally seen in clinic to be assessed by a clinician first, and will then be given an appropriate date for the cystoscopy.
Essentials in Urology is a free course is suitable for junior doctors, senior nursing staff and medical students based in Bristol.
It is a free interactive course covering emergency and ward based common urological problems:
Venue: Learning & Research Building, Southmead Hospital.
Consultant Lead: Helena Burden.
For further information contact karen.evely@bui.ac.uk
There are many people at NBT undertaking Master and Doctorate level study, or wanting to start their research careers. As a University post-graduate student, people are part of a full-time research community, meeting in shared study areas, and forming informal peer support networks. They are also supported by a post-graduate department who host events and provide training opportunities.
As full-time scientists, nurses, and allied health professionals undertaking research these support networks historically have not been present within NBT. SNAHPer aims are to rectify this. Our plan to give every individual a sense of belonging to an early career researcher peer community.
Research[1] suggests that accessing group support increases the likelihood of:
We have developed a draft programme of workshops and events to support any SNAHPer within the Trust. This support maps directly onto the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (the UK’s national organisation for researcher development).
As a member of SNAHPer, you will be encouraged to work with your supervisory team (within your registered HEI, if registered for a formal educational program) in using the Researcher Development Framework to identify your own goals and skill levels, enabling you to engage with targeted training and development activities, with them and within NBT.
If you would like to get involved in the group, please email SNAPHer@nbt.nhs.uk.
Here, our champions of the West of England Clinical Research Network (CRN), share why they believe AHPs should get involved in research:
I think research is important to AHPs because AHPs are very well placed in a lot of diverse clinical and community environments to talk to patients, to work with patients, to work in collaboration with patients, in order to ask the pertinent questions around what is going to benefit the patient in terms of clinical intervention, clinical treatments, and we are really well placed to work together with patients in order to further our knowledge, both the clinical benefit but also the patient benefit as well.
AHPs have a different relationship with their patients to medical clinicians, nurses and other staff within the hospitals. They have hands on contact with their patients for a much longer period than other clinicians in the hospital, and for a longer period of time. And the type of research that they can do therefore is very different. It tends to be more practical types of research, and therefore has potential impacts in quality of life and the day-to-day living of patients.
Really, we know that the best research ideas come from those working on the ground. They know what the problems are, what the issues are. With the clinical service, they do it day in, day out. They’ve probably already thought of solutions that, as academics sitting in an office, we wouldn’t necessarily know. I think it’s a really good opportunity to help the patients that you say day in, day out, and also to develop yourself as well. It's a tough process, but it’s an interesting process, and it’s just as important that we capture everyone’s voice in the research process.
I think it’s really important that AHPs get involved in research, if they can, if they have an interest in it, because we like to think of research as being enhanced healthcare. Everybody wins. The setting that the research is carried out in wins because it means that they have a more stringent team of healthcare professionals. The patients obviously win, because they’ve got access to the most cutting-edge healthcare available, and also that they can feel that they are doing something for somebody else, which is really important, and it does broaden the skillset of any clinician or AHP and widen their career, which has got to be a bonus.
As Allied Health Professionals, we are all involved in research because we are consumers of the research that is published. But actually, we need to be the people who also driving the research, because it’s through our clinical experience that we identify unique and different needs that need to be addressed through research, and we as the AHPs need to be leading that, and not just following the medics or other people’s research agendas, but actually setting our own research agenda.
[1] Conrad, L. 2006. “Countering Isolation—Joining the Research Community.” In Doctorates Downunder: Keys to Successful Doctoral Study in Australia and New Zealand, edited by C. Denholm and T. Evans, 34–40. Camberwell, VIC: Acer Press
Explore the ground-breaking research currently taking place at North Bristol NHS Trust.
Find out more about our research and how we're working to improve patient care.
Research & Development
North Bristol NHS Trust
Level 3, Learning & Research building
Southmead Hospital
Westbury-on-Trym
Bristol, BS10 5NB
Telephone: 0117 4149330
Email: research@nbt.nhs.uk
GMC Number: 6156615
Year & location of first qualification: 2007, University of Bristol
Specialty: Orthopaedics & Trauma
Clinical interests: Foot & Ankle Surgery, Trauma
Secretary: Rachel Powell
Telephone number: 0117 414 1607
Mr Peter Robinson completed his Orthopaedic & Trauma training in the Bristol region. He obtained advanced fellowship training in Foot & Ankle Surgery in Bristol & Sydney, Australia. He also completed trauma fellowship training in Bristol.
He provides specialist/complex foot and ankle treatments, including cartilage grafting & ankle replacements. He specialises in arthroscopic and minimally invasive techniques for sports and degenerative conditions. He is part of the diabetic foot multidisciplinary team.