Excellent news – Two more sites join the AFFECT trial! The Bristol Heart Institute, and the Freeman Hospital Newcastle. Well done to both teams for achieving the green light to begin recruitment, great work!

A huge well done and thank you to @kingscollegenhs.bsky.social @rbandh.bsky.social and St Bart's Hospital - All THREE sites have received the green light to begin recruitment for the AFFECT trial this week.

The ACU team are supporting #RedforResearch day!

Congrats to Castle Hill Hospital, green light received and first patient randomised. Welcome to the #AFFECTtrial! #Afib

Congratulations to James Cook University Hospital for randomising the first participant to the AFFECT trial! Great work team! #AFib #ClinicalTrial

The AFFECT trial is OPEN! Congrats to James Cook University Hospital and @uhsussex.bsky.social - the first two sites to receive green light to begin recruitment! Looking forward to welcoming more sites soon! #AFib #mitralvalve #ClinicalTrial

A trip to the The Royal College of Surgeons of England in London yesterday for members of the ACU & Cardiovascular research delivery team for the launch of the new inclusivity checklist developed by the The National Cardiac Surgery Clinical Trials Initiative.

Great to see South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Dr Douglas Muir contribute to this import work, published now in @nejm.org Routine Cerebral Embolic Protection during Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Amazing news from the #RESTORE trial - recruitment is over half way! A big thank you to all staff and participants involved! Let's keep it up! #pectus #ClinicalTrials

Join the ACU's Dr David Austin's talk today at 2pm UK time for Radcliffe Cardiology #JournalClub webinar on cardio-protection trials. Register via link below www.radcliffecardiology.com/webinars/ic-...

Excellent away day for the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility team yesterday. A chance for team building and future plans!

And an impressive update form the PACeS trial; 3 randomisations this year already! Well done everyone! #clinicaltrials #afib

Great start to 2025 from the RESTORE trial! Huge well done and thank you to all involved. #clinicaltrials #pectus #healthresearch

And another green light for @alderhey.nhs.uk Absolutely incredible work from the #RESTOREtrial Thank you all!

We're very pleased to announce The Royal Brompton and Harefield have received the green light! Welcome to the #RESTOREtrial this marks the sixth site to open! Well done everyone! #pectus #clinicaltrials #healthresearch

We're very pleased and proud to present the latest president-elect of SCTS @enochakowuah.bsky.social A huge congratulations from all your team here at the South Tees ACU! #cardiacresearch #cardiothoracic #healthresearch