Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP)
Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
It’s the Glasgow Science Festival again and this year the SHIP team have been in Cadder inspiring young people to imagine the difference they could make to the world through science. On Friday and Saturday members of the SHIP team set up their stall in Cadder Community Centre amongst lots of other GCU researchers and…
Well done to Professor Jacqui Reilly who was presented with her Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) at an awards event in Newcastle last week. Prof Reilly was elected a Fellow through distinction, a level of membership only offered to those who are recognised as distinguished through their significant contribution to public health.…
Today, a report by Health Protection Scotland (HPS), shows there is still much work to be done in the fight against Healthcare Associaed Infections (HAI). Although some infection rates are decreasing (for example, surgical site infections (SSI) after caesarean section) others such as those in Intensive Care Units, Clostridium difficile and Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections…
The SHIP team at GCU are hugely excited to be part of SHAIPI (The Scottish Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Institute). This is a new consortium which included Glasgow Caledonian, Glasgow, Strathclyde, St Andrews and Dundee Universities in partnership with clinicians and NHS Stakeholders. It has been awarded a £4,249,749 grant from the Chief Scientist’s Office/Scottish…
Welcome to our new blog. The Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) research group is led by Professor Jacqui Reilly who has established a strong relationship between Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) laboratory-based research and its application to infection prevention in the National Health Service (NHS). As a multidisciplinary team of researchers, including nurses, microbiologists and…