The SAFER Research Programme led by @PCU_Cambridge and @prof_mant - is screening for Atrial Fibrillation #AFib beneficial in the fight against #stroke?
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Well done Rakesh! We are very lucky to have you on the SAFER team 👏🏼
Massive congratulations to @rak_modi on winning the RCGP/NIHR First5 Research award for his outstanding work on the @SAFER_Study
@NIHRCRNEastern @PCU_Cambridge
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Excited to report that the first participants in the SAFER Trial have started recording ECGs as part of the AF screening intervention
GP practices in the Eastern region are now starting to invite eligible patients to take part in the SAFER trial. If you receive an invitation and have any questions, please contact the trial team safer.phpc.cam.ac.uk/contact…
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News of our adaptation to remote AF screening - and a lovely blog from @rak_modi
Seeing through the rain: GP and @SAFER_Study researcher @rak_modi writes about how research is adapting during the pandemic
@NIHRresearch
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We are fortunate to be working with Amrit and his amazing team @wansfordsurgery on the @SAFER_Study —congratulations on your well-deserved award
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We are recruiting! Come and join the SAFER team and help deliver a (very) large AF screening trial jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/22791/
We are well underway with phase 2 of our feasibility study. Huge thanks to our practices (Shelford, Buckden, Norwich, Hertford and Hoddesdon) for inviting 4,000 patients. Participants are already undergoing #AF screening and recording lots of ECGs - thank you everyone
Excited and privileged to be at #ESOC2019 with the @SAFER_Study. Detecting #AF is a bit of a hot topic here today. @NIHRresearch
For those of you that missed it here is a link to the @BBCLookEast piece about the @SAFER_Study from last month. Huge thanks to Chris and Janet for their help @OfficialNIHR @NIHRCRNEastern #AF
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Great to see @prof_mant and the @SAFER_Study in the news again - this time in the Biomedical Scientist @IBMScience @OfficialNIHR
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Congratulations @prof_mant 🤩
Congratulations are extended to Prof Jonathan Mant, University of Cambridge on his reappointment for an NIHR Senior Investigator Award spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/2019-ni…
NEWS ALERT! Tune in to BBC Look East @BBCLookEast tonight at 6.30 for a piece on the @SAFER_Study starring @prof_mant and GP Chris Schramm (Sawston Medical Centre) @OfficialNIHR @NIHRCRNEastern @CPPrimaryCareR1
And we are off….! Huge thanks to our amazing first phase feasibility practices (Sawston, Wansford, Soham, Dereham & Thetford) for all the hard work getting 4,000 study invitations out. As you can see the consent forms are flying in 👏
Fantastic to see the @SAFER_Study in the news this morning @OfficialNIHR @NIHRCRNEastern - Heart test trial aimed at reducing strokes begins in East Anglia bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca…
Wonderful to have Chris and the team helping us with the study. Thank you for providing the location (and the stars)! Looking forward to working with you over the coming weeks as we start patient recruitment. @NIHRCRNEastern @CambsPboroCCG
Exciting that the @SAFER_Study is about to begin recruiting patients for feasibility stage: thanks to nurse Marie Corcoran and GP Chris Schramm for being our film stars and helping us explain the study to potential GP partners
The @SAFER_Study has been given a 'favourable opinion' from the NHS Research Ethics Committee (REC) to proceed with the feasibility study. Lead by @prof_mant, from @PCU_Cambridge, this will start in early 2019 in the east of England @CPPrimaryCareR1, #AFib, #Stroke.
The @SAFER_Study, lead by @prof_mant from @PCU_Cambridge were pleased to welcome Prof Christian Mallen @PCSciences, Prof Ann Marie Swart @NorwichCTU, Prof Andy Vail @BiostatsUoMan and Dr Bob Ward (some of our independent members) to the first Programme Steering Committee meeting.
Hello Twitter! #AFAwareWeek seems a good time to launch the SAFER research programme @SAFER_Study safer.phpc.cam.ac.uk/ led by @PCU_Cambridge @prof_mant. Starting soon: Screening for Atrial Fibrillation #AFib with ECG to Reduce #stroke @OfficialNIHR @NIHRSPCR @CPPrimaryCareR1.