Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP)
Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
Implementation of alcohol-based handrub at the point of care helps to improve hand hygiene compliance in a hospital in Cameroon. By Dr Lucyna Gozdzielewska and Nkwan Jacob Gobte Hand hygiene is one of the most important Infection Prevention and Control measures for preventing healthcare-associated infections, yet, hand hygiene compliance remains low in…
By Pranitha Murali Research student, SHIP Group In the vibrant landscape of public engagement events, Explorathon 2023 emerged as a platform where the SHIP group showcased their commitment to making research accessible and engaging for all. With innovative events such as bacterial modelling using play dough and demonstrations on hand hygiene utilizing glow boxes and…
By Sofie French, Nurse Consultant at Antimicrobial Resistance & Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI) Scotland Hand hygiene and infection prevention and control go together like pineapple on pizza, a natural fit that cannot be argued. Joking aside, this remains a critically important measure in preventing the onward transmission of infection. Despite marketing…
Each year, on the 5th of May we celebrate the World Hand Hygiene Day. This initiative is led by the World Health Organization, as part of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign and aims to bring people together from around the world to improve hand hygiene in health care and prevent healthcare-associated infections. This…
By Katie Hendry, Dr Lucyna Gozdzielewska and Prof Lesley Price Effective hand hygiene among healthcare staff is one of the most important infection prevention strategies available worldwide. Hand hygiene also helps individuals to effectively reduce bacteria on their hands in their daily lives. However, uncertainty remains concerning a range of issues related to hand hygiene,…
While it is well known that hand hygiene helps to prevent infections in both healthcare and community settings, to be effective it needs to be performed in the correct way by using the 6-step technique, recommended by the World Health Organization. For this reason, healthcare workers are taught the 6-step hand hygiene technique during their…
This year’s Glasgow Science Festival’s Glasgow Connects is taking place between 1st and 30th September in a hybrid format, involving a wide range of live events held at a variety of venues across Glasgow and online “Science on the Sofa” activities. The SHIP team has once again participated in this exciting event by delivering an…
By Alicia Ware The WHO’s Hand Hygiene Day 2021 is just around the corner. The theme this year is “Seconds save lives: clean your hands!”. It aims to promote effective hand hygiene practices/performance at the point of care by all stakeholders, including IPC practitioners, healthcare workers and facility managers, as well as patients and families.…
Our first blog of 2021 is by Nkwan Jacob Gobte, of Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services. Jacob is the Research Coordinator of a hand hygiene study being led by the SHIP team in Cameroon. Since the 18th century, hand hygiene has been widely accepted as the main strategy to prevent infections in healthcare facilities. Hand…
In this blog we share tips from Alicia Ware (SHIP PhD Student) on how to carry out public engagement activities to communicate research. We also showcase some of the SHIP team’s past public engagement activities. Public engagement can seem like a daunting thing for many. How do you get up in front of school children,…