SIRN in the media

2012

10 December 2012, The Herald - £1.8m to research hospital infections (web)

10 December 2012, Scottish Daily Record - Scottish Government to fund £1.8million superbug research (web)

10 December 2012, Infection Control Today - Bugs Without Borders: Researchers Track Emergence Global Spread of Clostridium difficile (web)

10 December 2012, STV - Bid to banish hospital superbugs gets £1.8m Government cash boost (web)

2009

2 March 2009, NEXXUS News - Scientists study emerging strains of superbug Clostridium difficile (web)

6 January 2009, Reviews Reviewed - The phone that kills (text)

5 January 2009, Mobile Phones - Superbugs found to live on doctor's mobile phone (web/text)

4 January 2009, The Scotland on Sunday - Phone fingered in spread of superbugs (web/text)

2008

Autumn 2008, NEXXUS News - Productive First Year (NEXXUS Autumn 2008)

Spring 2008, NEXXUS News - Infection Developments (NEXXUS Spring 2008)

22 January 2008, Daily Mail - Alert as new killer bug hits families (22 January 2008, Daily Mail)

10 January 2008, The Scotsman - Wards close as norovirus cases reach record levels (web)

2007

28 December 2007, The Herald - £54m campaign for health staff to follow first lesson in hygiene (web/text)

Autumn 2007, Campus News - Hospital superbugs face new threat (Campus News Autumn 2007)

Autumn 2007, NEXXUS News - New network to tackle HAIs (Nexxus Autumn 2007)

7 August 2007, Courier and Advertiser - Group set up to fight superbugs (text)

7 August 2007, Metro Scotland - Whistleblower heads superbug centre (text)

7 August 2007, The Scottish Sun - Hospital bug fight (text)

7 August 2007, Scottish Daily Mail - New body to take on superbugs (text)

6 August 2007, Evening Times - Top doctor to lead fight against killer superbugs (web)

6 August 2007, The Scotsman - Research network launched to tackle superbugs (web/text)

6 August 2007, The Herald - Psychologists in drive to get NHS staff to wash hands (web/text)

6 August 2007, BBC News - Project aims to tackle superbug (web/text)

6 August 2007, The Press and Journal - Superbug research network launched (text)

6 August 2007, Dundee Evening Telegraph - 'Bold' new bid to tackle superbug crisis (text)

6 August 2007, Science Business - Glasgow University to host networks to tackle hospital superbugs (web/text)

6 August 2007, Channel 4 News - New body tackles hospital superbugs (text)

6 August 2007, Inthenews.co.uk - Project to target hospital superbugs (web/text)