News and Events

Events

Webinar: Help shape a co-developed model for physical rehabilitation in stroke for a Cochrane Review

29 Mar 2022 - 31 Mar 2022 Online

During the webinar you will hear why, and how, a group of stroke survivors, carers and physiotherapists worked together to co-develop a model that describes physical rehabilitation after stroke.

Pup4Dads Study Expert Event

7 Oct 2020 Online

PuP4Dads study Expert Event. Please view online before attending the online meeting on Wed 7th October

8th Annual Research Symposium: Call for abstracts

23 Apr 2020 COSLA Conference Centre, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh EH12 5BH

Healthcare Improvement Scotland is jointly hosting a symposium with our partners at Health Services Research Unit and the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, and the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit at the Chief Scientist Office.

7th Annual Research Symposium

25 Apr 2019 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH

The concept of value based healthcare has recently come to prominence in discussions of how to maximise population and individual health. The Chief Medical Officer in her report on Realistic Medicine drew on this model in setting a vision of healthcare in Scotland.

Improvement Research Network

16 May 2019 - 16 May 2019 Room A523, Govan Mbeki Building, Glasgow Caledonian University

SISCC and the Q Network are holding a meeting to consider how to develop an “Improvement Research Network”

Can behavioural factors influence the delivery and sustainability of improvement initiatives?

26 Sep 2018 - 26 Sep 2018 Stirling Court Hotel

This free seminar will address ways to facilitate behaviour change to support improvement activities within health and social care settings.

News

Published on: 10/06/2022

Mental Health Promotion and Intervention in Occupational Settings (MENTUPP Project) – Policy Brief

The NMAHP-RU at University of Stirling is part of the MENTUPP project, which aims at improving mental wellbeing at the workplace. On the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day 2022, the MENTUPP consortium recently published a Policy Brief that we would like to share with you.

Published on: 03/14/2022

Retirement of Professor Doreen McClurg

Congratulations and best wishes to Professor Doreen McClurg on her retirement from the NMAHP Research Unit. We want to sincerely thank Prof. McClurg for her astounding dedication to improving bowel, bladder and pelvic health in people worldwide.

Published on: 10/04/2021

Suzanne Hagen - Best Clinical Abstract Winner, ICS 2021

Professor Suzanne Hagen was awarded the Best Clinical Abstract winner at the ICS 2021 Melbourne.

Published on: 10/04/2021

Suzanne Hagen – 25 years as a member of GCU and the NMAHP RU

Congratulations to Professor Suzanne Hagen on reaching the milestone of serving 25 years as a member of GCU and the NMAHP Research Unit.

Published on: 09/24/2021

Emerging threat to human health in Southeast Asia

Dr Fiona Harris was invited to contribute to an international expert panel to develop a risk profile of an emerging threat to human health in Southeast Asia. The panel was convened by the Food and Agriculture Organisation for the United Nations.

Published on: 07/02/2021

Congratulations to Edward Duncan

Congratulations to Edward Duncan a longstanding Unit member of staff who has been promoted to Professor at the University of Stirling.

Published on: 07/01/2021

The Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy programme - a COVID 19 response project

The Scottish Government Technology Supporting Maternity Care COG developed the suite of guidance documents and information for women to underpin rapid roll-out of supported self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy, initially as Covid-response during Spring and Summer of 2020.

Published on: 06/30/2021

Improving the prehospital identification and management of people presenting to the ambulance service with COVID 19 symptoms.

Little is known about how COVID-19 patients present to ambulance services, what happens to them or how paramedics engage with this patient group.

Published on: 09/27/2019

Professor Marian Brady awarded RCSLT Fellowship

Professor Marian Brady received the Fellowship of the RCSLT Fellowship award from Sophie, the Countess of Wessex at the RCSLT 2019 Awards Ceremony.

Published on: 04/12/2019

Scottish Seedcorn Fund for Neurological Research

The Scottish Seedcorn Fund for Neurological Research is open for applications. Deadline for completed applications is 12pm 20th May 2019.