Posts Tagged ‘PARTNERSHIPS’
Partnership will fund new research into preventing healthcare-associated infections
Our exciting new partnership with the University of Newcastle in Australia will fund new research into preventing and controlling infections. One in 10 patients in an Australian hospital today is likely to get an infection they didn’t have when they went into hospital. This partnership is very exciting and will see the University provide vital…
Read MoreInterviews with our scholarship recipients
Nicola and Sarah are two exceptional nurses who are receiving our GAMA Infection Prevention Scholarship. We’re providing a full scholarship, covering all tuition fees, for them to each study a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Practice with focus on Infection Prevention. We caught up with both of them shortly after they’d received the good news. Nicola…
Read MoreUpdates from the Healthcare Infection Society’s 2018 conference
We enjoyed the recent Healthcare Infection Society’s 2018 conference in Liverpool, and thought we’d share a few highlights. You can view all of the submitted abstracts here and the invited abstracts here. The role of the environment in the transmission of HCAI was a strong theme throughout the conference, with key speakers discussing the relative importance of contaminated…
Read MoreGAMA Healthcare updates from Infection Prevention 2017
We all enjoyed Infection Prevention 2017 — and hope that you did too! Here’s a few scientific updates relating to our product range that were presented at the conference, published in the Journal of Infection Prevention: Please feel free to contact us if you’d like any more information about these updates.
Read MoreWhat’s in the disinfectant pipeline?
We talk often about the ‘antibiotic pipeline’, but as the pipeline slows to a trickle, the ‘disinfectant pipeline’ is made even more important. Prof Jean-Yves Maillard from Cardiff University recently gave a talk at the HIS Spring Meeting scanning the horizon for new disinfectants. Prof Maillard began with highlighting the emerging challenge that biofilms present to effective…
Read MoreBiofilms, biofilms everywhere!
A study from Australia (click here for article) has found biofilms pretty much everywhere on an Australian ICU. The research team cut out 44 surfaces from the ICU and identified biofilms on 41 (93%) of them. This finding will be surprising for some, since biofilms are traditionally associated with hard surface – liquid interfaces (teeth, ship hulls,…
Read MoreGAMA wins People’s Choice Award
GAMA Healthcare are excited to announce that due to your support we were awarded the Cardiff University Innovation and Impact Awards – People’s Choice Award, as well as winning the Business Innovation award. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us. The award recognises the impact research has within healthcare and industry in…
Read MoreCardiff & GAMA’s KTP rated outstanding
GAMA Healthcare are proud to have been awarded an ‘outstanding’ grade for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and ourselves. The government run partnership was established to provide additional resources for GAMA’s R&D department whilst offering valuable ‘real world’ industry experience for Cardiff’s students. The partnership provided vital…
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