Medical Fund Newsletter Spring 2015 £4.2m to A fantastic A state-of-the Plan your fight hospital summer at the art hospital on campus infections Dental School for Glasgow reunion See page 2 See page 3 See page 4 See page 6 Welcome £4.2m for research to help tackle hospital infections Welcome to our Spring edition of the Medical Fund newsletter. With the warmer weather, your thoughts may well be turning to outdoor activities and so you will be interested to read Cabinet Secretary, Shona Robison, with the team at the SHAIPI laboratories, and, on the front about our Munro Challenge which takes cover, with Lynn Stewart of the Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation. place in late May. The aim of the event is to have groups of walkers on as many of The Scottish Government’s Cabinet Education Institutes, 19 co-investigators, Scotland’s 282 Munros as possible. This Secretary for Health, Wellbeing & several NHS Boards and industry year funds raised from the event will go Sport, Ms Shona Robison, visited the partners who will work together to tackle towards the Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia University on 24th March to announce the threat to public health from emergent Research Centre and I hope many of you £4.25 million of funding to establish Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) will join us. the Scottish Healthcare Associated and antimicrobial resistance. Infection Prevention Institute (SHAIPI). We highlight the new South Glasgow The funding has been channelled ‘A truly national effort’ University Hospital, which will become to the Scottish Infection Research Ms Robison said ‘This significant one of Europe’s largest hospitals, and Network (SIRN) via the Chief Scientist investment towards research in this area the key University projects which will be Office and will enable the five-year will allow us to take the next step in our located there. We were also pleased to project to commence in April 2015. welcome Ms Shona Robison, Cabinet fight to bring down infection levels even Secretary for Health, Wellbeing & Sport, Ms Robison met with Professor Neal further. This is one of the single biggest to the University last month where she Juster, Senior Vice-Principal and Deputy research grants awarded in recent years announced £4.2m of funding to establish Vice-Chancellor and Professor Anna that aims to investigate ways to further a new Infection Prevention Institute. Dominiczak, Vice Principal and Head of reduce healthcare-associated infections. the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life ‘This is truly a national effort, bringing The previous edition of the newsletter Sciences, before being taken on a tour of together expertise from a number of featured the Dental School which is the SHAIPI laboratories. fundraising for a new prosthodontics Scottish universities and Scotland’s NHS laboratory and you will read in this SHAIPI, led by Professor Alistair Leanord with a clear focus towards making our edition about the novel ways it is raising at the University of Glasgow, will create a hospitals safer for all those patients who money this summer for the project. You virtual hub involving six Scottish Higher use it.’ will read also how one of our Institute Directors, Professor Jill Pell, is taking on an incredible challenge to raise funds for the Institute of Health & Wellbeing. Finally, thank you to Professor Anna Supporting undergraduates Dominiczak, for her article about reconnecting with old friends. We know For the past 5 years, the Medical presented at the Royal Society of how important it is for our reunion groups Fund has been helping students Medicine, the World Health Summit to return to campus and I hope she will further their education by attending and the British Transplantation Society encourage those of you who are thinking conferences with a £5,000 grant from Congress. This valuable experience about organising an event to contact us. the Medical Education theme. This helps to expand students’ horizons and has provided much needed support enhance their employability. for undergraduate students to travel to conferences and to present research. Over the years, over 100 students have Support the Fund attended conferences in radiology, • www.glasgow.ac.uk/ Professor Sir Michael Bond hypertension and stroke, nutrition, givingtoglasgow/medicalfund Chair, The Medical Fund palliative care and diabetes and 2 Yorkhill A bumper summer celebrates for the Dental School centenary To mark 100 years of the presence of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at the Yorkhill site, the Hospital and its staff have been engaged in a series of events during 2014 and 2015. These centenary celebrations will culminate with the Paediatric Research Day that will be held on 9 October 2015. In 2015, this annual event will be extraordinary for a number of reasons. Not only will it celebrate the centenary, but it will also be the first Paediatric Research Day that will be held at the new Teaching & Learning Centre at South Glasgow University Hospitals site in the vicinity of the new Royal Hospital For Sick Children. The theme of the Glasgow Paediatric Research Day will be ‘A Personalised Approach Towards The Clinical Care As you will have read in the last edition Of Children In the 21st Century’. The Monte Carlo or Bust of the newsletter, the University day will consist of a series of research of Glasgow’s Dental School have The main attraction this summer, communications by young local launched an appeal to build a new however, will be the Monte Carlo or Bust investigators and will be followed in Dental Technology Teaching Suite. Banger Rally. Driving a 1977 Leyland the afternoon by lectures that will be Princess from San Quentin through the delivered by local and international The current ‘Prosthodontics Teaching Alps to Monte Carlo in three days are experts and ending with an evening Laboratory’ was designed for a previous University of Glasgow Dental School reception for all. era and a fundamentally different, staff members Jeremy Bagg, Neil integrated ‘Dental Technology Teaching Campbell and Ronnie Ford, also known Suite’ is required in order to deliver a as the Mad Molars. From 16 to 19 July We look forward to student-centred experience that ensures they will be driving along with 100 other a detailed understanding of modern bangers as part of a rally which will take welcoming you to dental technologies. them through Dijon, Geneva and Turin the next 100 years The Dental Appeal aims to raise with some competitions and challenges £300,000 over the next three years to to complete en-route. of the Royal Hospital allow this major project to proceed. To Decoration of the vehicle has already help raise these funds, the Dental School started with sponsors purchasing self- for Sick Children. has a host of events and activities adhesive molar teeth which they sign planned over the summer. and which are attached to the body panels and corporate sponsors can Further information Fundraising events opt to have an advert on the vehicle • www.glasgow.ac.uk/ A Gala Concert entitled ‘The Glasgow for a minimum donation of £250. We paediatricresearchday Dental Big Band & Friends’ will be held wish them all the best in this fundraising in the Glasgow University Union on adventure! To have your name on the the evening of Friday, 5 June 2015. A vehicle please contact Laura Morton at number of alumni will be performing with the details below. the students’ Dental Big Band to provide an evening of outstanding musical talent, fun and entertainment. There is also a golfing event scheduled Support the Mad Molars for June. The date and venue are still in • Make a donation negotiation but it is shaping up to be a www.justgiving.com/themadmolars fantastic event with some great prizes. • Follow their preparations and trip If you are interested in either of these www.facebook.com/themadmolars events please contact Laura Morton on Further information the details opposite. • Laura Morton Medical Development Officer Pictured Above • E: [email protected] Jeremy Bagg and Neil Campbell, two of the • T: +44 (0) 141 330 4951 Mad Molars, with the 1977 Leyland Princess. 3 The new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children As 2015 progresses the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) will coordinate the gradual relocation of the Southern General, Western Infirmary and Victoria Infirmary to South Glasgow University Hospital. It will become one of Europe’s largest hospital complexes and will be located at Govan adjacent to the site of the Southern General Hospital. The new facility will incorporate maternity, children’s and adult acute hospitals, and specialist services including renal medicine, transplantation and vascular surgery, theatre and diagnostic services. The £842 million publicly funded project also has the largest critical care complex and one of the biggest emergency departments in Scotland. The new 14 floor adult hospital will have 1,109 beds, with each general ward consisting of 28 single bedrooms. The Royal Hospital For Sick Children will have a separate identity and entrance and is adjoined to the adult hospital. With 256 beds over five storeys it will replace the existing Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill. Additional NHS GGC facilities on this site include the newly built Maternity Unit and the Laboratories Building. In addition the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit, The West of Scotland Mobile Rehabilitation Unit and the Langland’s Rehabilitation Unit for older people will Key University projects on the new site remain on the site. Clinical Research Facility The fourth floor will be home to the Linking treatment and research This facility will focus on early stage Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation An important aspect of the new hospitals clinical trials, to allow more significant Centre, a public-private partnership is the physical links in the form of bridges advances in the treatment of chronic which brings together four Scottish and link corridors for patients and staff diseases.