Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
In June the SHIP team were involved in three events to help raise awareness of hand hygiene and antimicrobial resistance. This time we also had some nursing students help out too. On Friday 15th June there was a Meet the Researcher day and then on the Saturday there was a Community Science Day. These were…
This is World Antibiotic Awareness Week and to celebrate the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) researchers at GCU thought we’d tell you a little bit about what we’ve been doing to get involved. World Antibiotic Awareness Week is organised by the World Health Organization and has been running since November 2015. The campaign aims…
When a teacher from Barsail primary school in Erskine asked the SHIP Research Group to help with their health week we jumped at the chance. She had heard about the Guinness World Record breaking attempt that the SHIP research group had been involved in two years ago, when student nurses taught the world’s largest simultaneous…
New guidelines published by the World Health Organisation draw on the work of GCU SHIP research An evidence review, commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and conducted by researchers from the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) research group at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), is part of a new set of global…
If Content is King then Context is Queen In April 2016 a study completed by SHIP (Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention) researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) made the headlines as it produced the first evidence, in a randomised controlled trial (RCT), that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 6-step hand hygiene guidance is more effective…
Hi everyone, Each year the World Health Organisation’s “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” campaign aims to highlight the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement globally. Hand hygiene is the entrance door for reducing health care-associated infections and so on Thursday 5th May the…
After the huge success of last year’s world record, it was decided that we should try for another record, still within the theme of hand hygiene since this is the most effective way of reducing the risk of infection in healthcare and the transmission of infection in the wider community. All student nurses are…
Last month the 2nd UK One Health Report was published. This reports on both human and animal antibiotic use, sales and resistance during 2013. Professor Jacqui Reilly was one of the report contributors. It aims to encourage further joint working between human & animal sectors, identify the emerging and current antibiotic resistance threats, identify differences in surveillance…
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…