Natalie Blencowe is a Professor in Surgery and MRC Clinician Scientist at the University of Bristol, Royal College of Surgeons Linder Foundation Associate Professor in Clinical Trials, and consultant Upper GI surgeon at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

She is deputy lead and a workstream lead in our surgical and orthopaedic innovation theme.

Natalie co-founded the Severn and Peninsula Audit and Research Collaborative for Surgeons (SPARCS). She is particularly interested in developing methods for optimising the quality assurance of surgical interventions and understanding how innovative procedures evolve and are adopted into clinical practice.

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Developing protocols for managing digital videos of surgical procedures

There are many benefits to video recording surgical procedures. Recordings provide a lot of data…

Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation

Workstream Innovative translational research methods

Assessing minimally invasive surgery for oesophageal cancer

It is common for surgeons to modify new surgical procedures. Modifications don’t usually happen in…

Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation

Workstreams Innovative translational research methods Novel surgical and orthopaedic techniques and devices

Adapting a randomised controlled trial to evaluate sleeve gastrectomy

Evaluating new surgical procedures is difficult. This is because the surgical community often sees ‘new’…

Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation

Improving how surgical procedure modifications are reported

The way new surgical procedures are developed and evaluated is very different to how new…

Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation

Workstream Innovative translational research methods

Using AI to help with quality assurance in surgical studies

Surgery improves and saves millions of lives each year. Many operations are tested in randomised…

Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation

Workstream Innovative translational research methods

Comparing surgical procedures for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease

The aim of this project is to compare two types of surgical procedure performed by…

Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation

Workstream Innovative translational research methods