Welcome to SIRN
Funded by the Scottish Government and established to improve the quality and quantity of research into healthcare-related infections in Scotland.
News . . .
The Future
SIRN has now secured funding from the Scottish Government, assuring it's continuation until 2015.
SIRN 2011 Research Funding Round
This funding round has now closed. Outcomes will be announced shortly.
SIRN Seminar Sponsorship Funding
The SIRN Seminar Sponsorship Fund aims to promote talks on HAI-related topics in departmental seminar programmes throughout Scotland. A maximum of £200 per event is available for use towards expenses for invited speakers, and refreshments. All claims will be paid retrospectively and must be supported by receipts.
Topics should be relevant to the aim of SIRN “to contribute towards the prevention and control of Healthcare-Associated Infections”.
Who's Who in Healthcare Associated Infection Research in Scotland?
SIRN is compiling a ‘map’ of HAI-related research in Scotland. If you are involved in HAI-related research and would like your research and organisation to be included, please contact Lesley Frew with some brief details of who you are, where you are and of your research. It is intended that the map will highlight areas of expertise and facilitate collaboration.
Survey
For us to address the increasingly worrying problem of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) in Scotland, it is vital that we concentrate our resources on areas where research is most required. With this in mind, we have designed a brief anonymous questionnaire to help us form a picture of HAI-related research in Scotland. We intend to use the information obtained from this survey to try to focus future research on specific areas of weakness and inform Scottish policy development accordingly.
If you have been involved in research in the last 12 months, or are currently involved in research (either funded or unfunded), it would be helpful if you could please take a few moments to provide us with details via the brief questionnaire below. Please complete the questionnaire for each research project.
Initial results from the SIRN Research Survey are now available.