Beenish Iqbal presenting her important work looking at the optimal management of post CT biopsy PTX. No high level evidence informing standard practice in this cohort. Variation in both practice and patient preferences - studies needed! Rob Hallifax Najib M Rahman Oxford Respiratory Trials

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.

📣 READ ALL ABOUT IT 📣 The TACTIC trial protocol has now been published. Find out more BMJ Open Respiratory or hit the link👇 bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/10/1/e…

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

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 @EddCarlton Rob Hallifax and their teams! Watch this space!

LISP has hit 100 recruits!! Thank you so much to our 17 sites for all your hard work! We’re working hard at LISP HQ to get our final sites over the line…Keep up the good work!

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!

1. INSPIREresp LISP 2. dartlunghealth DART 3. UNIVERSAL 4. SENSOR Very exciting times University Hospitals Sussex UHSussexResearch

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 🫁

Happy New Year to all our LISP collaborators! 🥳 Over the festive period Worcestershire Acute NHS were busy recruiting our 199th and 200th participants!! Thank you to the team there for all your hard work!

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.

Congratulations to the team at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust LizaKeating for randomising their first patient to the Consept Trial 🎉 A great start to the New Year! Thank you for your hard work and commitment to research 🫁#CollapsedLung #ClinicalTrials

🚨NEW JOB ALERT!🚨 Bristol ARU and North Bristol NHS Trust are recruiting a one-year clinical pleural fellow (ST4+) to support our internationally renowned pleural service. Advert below. UK Pleural Society British Thoracic Society (BTS) RespFutures Trainees nbt.nhs.uk/careers/curren…

Great NEJM article (nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…) on conservative management of pneumothorax by David Feller-Kopman and Samira Shojaee. Looks like true equipoise. Hopefully will be answered by Consept Trial

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…

Hooray! The Consept Trial has reached 40 patients randomised! Thank you to all our teams for your hard work in reaching this milestone. Big shout out to Dr Ashraf and NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈 for recruiting the 40th patient. Look out for a prize coming your way! 🥳👏 #ClinicalTrials #PSP