Urgent changes needed to global guidelines designed to stop surgical infection

By |October 27th, 2021|NIHR Unit on Global Surgery, Publications, Uncategorized|

Urgent changes needed to global guidelines designed to stop surgical infection The Lancet has published a new study by the FALCON collaborative that looks into the reduction of surgical site infections in low-income and middle-income countries. The team behind the study believe that urgent changes are needed to global guidelines designed to stop surgical [...]

Welcome To The Sixth NIHR GSU Newsletter

By |October 19th, 2020|Newsletter, NIHR Unit on Global Surgery, Publications, RCT, Uncategorized|

We open this sixth edition of our newsletter with the excellent news that Unit Director Professor Dion Morton has received an OBE! Please read on to find out more. We are also very pleased to announce the publication of the first COVIDSurg-Cancer paper and to share news on the Unit’s studies and activities. Please continue to [...]

Global Guidelines for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection Published

By |March 25th, 2020|Uncategorized|

NIHR Global Surgery Unit researchers have published global guidelines for the prevention of surgical site infection in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS). Expert surgeons from 14 countries across Africa, Europe, Latin America, and South Asia worked together to identify and collate nine evidence-based interventions that can be feasibly implemented worldwide at low cost. [...]

Growing the surgical network across India

By |March 23rd, 2020|Uncategorized|

In February, members of the UK-based Global Surgery Unit (GSU) team travelled to India to attend a 2-day workshop in New Delhi together with 50 delegates representing 19 Indian states and Union territories. The workshop was also attended by the Chancellor (Lord Bilimoria) and Vice-Chancellor (Professor Sir David Eastwood) of the University of Birmingham (UoB) [...]

Terrific Tamale

By |November 12th, 2019|Uncategorized|

On day 2 of the courses in Tamale, we ran a Health Economics course and day 2 of the Wellcome Trust funded HealthyR course!We started early, which was a surprise given the fantastic welcome dinner hosted by Professor Stephen Tabiri, the Ghana lead. Over the past few days, Stephen has been the most amazing host [...]

Tamale: Delving into Data

By |November 11th, 2019|Uncategorized|

It's day 1 in Tamale! After a lovely flight, Stephen Tabiri and Edwin Yenli provided smooth transfers into the heart of Tamale. Tamale is at the heart of northern Ghana and is the third biggest city in Ghana after Accra and Kumasi.Well worth a trip, beautiful countryside and fantastic hospitality. Back to the work in [...]

GlobalSurg Announces Major New Partnership

By |July 21st, 2017|Newsletter, Uncategorized|

July Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg Joins Major New Strategic Partnership to Build Global Surgical Research Unit In association with The Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh & Warwick, GlobalSurg are delighted to announce the launch of a major new Global Surgical Research Unit. The consortium partners have been awarded substantial grant funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), UK. Over the next four [...]

Thank you to all GlobalSurg 2 Collaborators!

By |September 23rd, 2016|GS2, Newsletter, Uncategorized|

Thank you to all 2125 collaborators who submitted data to GlobalSurg 2  We now have over 15,500 completed patient records from 65 countries in our database - a truly amazing global effort! Thank you to everyone for all your hard work collecting data over the last 6 months The data validation study is currently ongoing and then [...]

GlobalSurg 2 – The Pakistani side of the story

By |July 1st, 2016|Uncategorized|

Ibrahim Raza, Awais Raza, Ahmed Banisadar and Syed Ahmed Raza share their GlobalSurg experience from King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan Ibrahim Raza I had always considered a long-distance multi-national research setup to be very challenging, so I had little optimism when my consultant surgeon Dr.Ahmad Uzair Qureshi asked me if [...]

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