PEM enthusiast, comic geek, tired parent, accidental researcher. Needs to learn how to say no.
Joined June 2009
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
27 Jul 2025
Up to 15k on offer in the RCEM Autumn research call - what are you waiting for? Ideally suited to a pilot study, piece of qualitative research, single centre research intervention, literature review, an innovation implementation or perhaps a review of current practice? U choose!
27 Jul 2025
🚀 Trainees, new consultants & aspiring academics – this is for YOU! Our grants can help build your research career.
💡 Pilot project idea?
💼 Need part-funding for a sub-study?
📈 Want to grow your academic portfolio?
Up to £15,000 funding.
📅 Deadline: 22 Sept 2025
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
20 Jul 2025
Great to see our study findings highlighted @itvnews news - hopefully the publicity will encourage anyone currently pregnant to consider getting the maternal RSV vaccine itv.com/news/2025-07-18/rsv-…
ALT Picture of baby's feet being held by an adult
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
18 Jul 2025
CRAFFT — the UK-wide RCT for displaced distal radius fractures in children — is wrapping up.
Final follow-up complete. Analysis soon begins.
A huge collaboration in paediatric trauma research.
🎥 CRAFFTstudy.org
@PERUKItweep @BSCOS_UK @NIHRresearch
#Fracture #RCT
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Only 27 participants needed to complete recruitment in the CRAFFTstudy.org
Then, we’ll have 750 randomised 💪🤩
@bota_uk - your last chance to get involved
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
21 Apr 2024
The @PERUKItweep paper on UK & Ireland discharging practices for children with wheeze is out!
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Not always comfortable reading.
Science of 'discharging the wheezing child' in desperate need of firm evidence as variation abounds
HT Romanie Hannah & Team
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Emergency department discharge practices for children with acute wheeze and asthma
Wide variation in treatment and patient info
@damian_roland @mdlyttle @PERUKItweep
Survey of discharge practice and safety netting instructions 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
18 Apr 2024
Study 3 from TOTSresearch.org - CRAFFT RCT.
Summer is coming - kids wrist fractures are too!
Anatomical reduction (surgery) vs. remodelling (no surgery).
We are sooo close 😜 - 30 remaining (of 750).
Be excited.
@Oxford_Trauma @BSCOS_UK @NIHRresearch @PERUKItweep
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
16 Feb 2024
@Damian_Roland @mdlyttle @KJWkathryn @stuarthartshorn could you please share with PEM colleagues? Parent interviews near completion, staff perspectives needed. Thanks 🙏🏻
16 Feb 2024
Looking for ED staff to take part in a focus group exploring how parental distress is understood and supported in PEDs
I’m sure there are lots of brilliant staff members who would be interested, please share with your network @PERUKItweep @shroukmessahel @kerry_woolfall
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
28 Feb 2024
The 700th participant was last night randomised into the CRAFFTstudy.org 💥🤩
50 to go….with playground season soon upon us!
Thanks to the study teams up and down the country.
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
Do you tick all of these boxes?
✅️ #healthcare professional
✅️ in #emergencycare
✅️ treating children & young people
If so, please follow the link ⬇️ to start this survey in order to help set #research priorities for #paediatric #EmergencyMedicine.
redcap.liverpool.ac.uk/surve…
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
30 Jan 2024
🚨 New job alert - please share far and wide:
🌟Join us at the Centre for Health and Clinical Research (CHCR) at @UWEBristol!
📣Research Fellow - Realist Evaluation
⏰Closing date: 18-Feb-24
📋Full time, two years
More info and apply here: tinyurl.com/3jemasra
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
Great article by the @BBCNews highlighting the work of our very own @laurakgoodwin on #neonatal #hypothermia in prehospital births. Well done Laura 👏 #changeofpractice #research #impact 🚑
@CHCR_UWE @capcbristol @swasftResearch
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
Good luck to all the finalists at the #HSJDigitalAwards this evening 🤞
We’re delighted to be shortlisted for 2 awards! The Digital Children’s Emergency Department Project Team is up for Digital Team of the Year, and Dr Mark Lyttle is shortlisted for Digital Leader of the Year🙌
ALT HSJ Digital Awards 2023
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5 Apr 2023
Can't believe it's been a year already! A good oppportunity for sites who haven't yet submitted cases to get their skates on...(I'm off to check ours....)
1 Apr 2023
It is the final month of the @MAGNETICstudy ! 🏁🏁
Please upload all cases of magnet 🧲ingestion to -www.redcap.link/MAGNETIC
Contact us on magneticstudy2022@gmail.com with any queries 👍
@BAPS1953 @RCPCHtweets @PERUKItweep
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
23 Mar 2023
Excited to see our study on @ICON_COPE (coping with a crying baby) in @BBCBristol - more info below!
What a great team: @mdlyttle Maria Barnes @julie_mytton @JelenaSavovic Theresa Redaniel @hstmcleod @csrejon & @jonijacksoni at @BristolUni @ARC_West @PublicHealthUWE & @uhbwNHS💪
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Mark Lyttle retweeted
Important work from our colleague @mdlyttle and team on preventing abusive #head #trauma in #babies
"The University of the West of England is investigating whether giving prospective and new parents safety tips cuts shaken baby syndrome."
@CHCR_UWE
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14 Nov 2022
A privilege to work with @julie_mytton @JelenaSavovic and @ARC_West team on this syst review, very timely as effective intervention needed most at times of societal stress
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What happened in the 2021 RSV epidemic in UK and Ireland that peaked in August?
25% admitted from ED
2.5% went to PICU
Read about it here: @Damian_Roland @wheezylikesund1 @mdlyttle
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8 Oct 2022
RT @louise22roper: I’m sure there’s lots of brilliant assistant psychologists, researchers & HCA’s in hospitals who might be interested in…
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