If you are under the care of NBT diabetes team and become unwell for any reason, it is important that you follow the ‘sick day rules’. 

TREND UK: Type 1 diabetes: what to do when you are ill

TREND UK: Type 2 diabetes: what to do when you are ill 

What should I do if I take an SGLT2-inhibitor  - Forxiga (dapagliflozin), Invokana (canagliflozin), Jardiance (empagliflozin), Steglatro (ertugliflozin)?

If you are still unsure how to manage your diabetes despite looking at the above links, then please do not hesitate to contact the Southmead Diabetes Team on 0117 414 6427 for advice. We are extremely busy at the current time but will get back to you as soon as possible.

If you are not under the care of NBT diabetes please contact your GP or usual care provider

Information for clinicians 

There are 6 specialist endometriosis clinics per month. Our endometriosis specialist nurse also runs a separate clinic twice a month.

Referral criteria

Inclusion criteria:
• Women with diagnosis of severe endometriosis (defined as endometriosis affecting bowel, bladder, ureter)
• Endometrioma
• Extra pelvic endometriosis e.g. thoracic endometriosis
• Non severe endometriosis refractory to treatment

Exclusion criteria:
• Women with pelvic pain and no endometriosis
• Non-severe endometriosis responding to treatment

Patient pathway

Useful guidelines

NICE guideline [NG73] Endometriosis: diagnosis and management September 2017

ESHRE guideline Management of women with endometriosis September 2013

Endometriosis support

Endometriosis UK is a charity that provides free information and support to those who have endometriosis. There is a local Bristol support group.

The Pelvic Pain Support Network is an organisation that provides support, information and advocacy for those with pelvic pain, their families and carers

What happens at our clinic?

Investigations

Medical Treatments

Surgical Treatments

Multi-Disciplinary Meeting (MDM)

How can I prepare for my appointment?

About endometriosis

How common is endometriosis?

Endometriosis affects as many as one in ten women of reproductive age, many of whom will have no symptoms. This is an estimated two million women in the UK. It can affect women from every social group and ethnicity.

What are the symptoms?

Types of endometriosis

How is endometriosis diagnosed?

How is endometriosis treated?

Our main branches of research concern:

• predicting who will develop memory problems such as Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease;
• treating memory problems and neurodegenerative diseases;
• understanding how different types of memories are stored, and which brain regions underlie this.

We use several techniques for this including:

• clinical trials and drug studies
• sleep studies, including polysomnography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• studies with patients with diseases
• computational modelling

For more information on the University of Bristol Dementia Research Group visit
www.bristol.ac.uk/translational-health-sciences/research/neurosciences/…

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.

Suitable for all members of the SNAHPer Group, here you will find links to useful training and software that may aid you in your role.

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.

External Training Opportunities

NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West offers a range of training opportunities over the year including:

• Writing for a lay audience.
• How to win at Twitter.
• Introduction to service evaluation.
• Basic statistics and interpretation.

You can apply for this via the ARC West website. This site also has links to short training courses that local universities offer.

Free Online Training

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)

Free Software

Endnote Reference Management

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.

SNAHPer offer regular support sessions, providing opportunities for its members to discuss any number of topics they may need advice on.

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.

Library Workshops

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.