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23/07/2025
Looking for a school holiday activity?
Have you ever wondered what a healthcare scientist does?
Or how science can help in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases?
Come along to the Aberdeen Science Centre on Thursday 7th August to meet the healthcare scientists.
23/04/2025
All the best George!
The lab chief who grew up living at ARI and his daughters who followed in his footsteps George and his family have given a combined service of over 120 years to the NHS and they aren't finished yet...
29/03/2025
Shout out to the Renal Service MDT Team who recently won a NHSG Team STAR Award! They successfully created and launched a home haemodialysis service within NHS Grampian. Their new framework for home haemodialysis will help to support many more patients to have their treatment at home which really improves their quality of care! Some members of the team from left to right : Colin Craig, Shared Care Support Worker, Susan Ramsay, Shared Care Support Worker, Denise Edgar, Senior Charge Nurse, Renal Unit, Dr Laura Clark, Consultant & Renal Service Clinical Director, Ginto Cherian, Shared Care Nurse, Patrick Gabo, Principle Renal Technologist NHS Grampian
20/03/2025
Proud moment alert 🚨!!! Fantastic news and what a superb achievement!!! 🎉 🏆Congratulations Dr Ijeoma Okoliegbe 🎉😃
National Award for NHS Grampian Clinical Scientist
A clinical scientist, based at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and specialising in infection prevention and control, has received a prestigious national award.
Dr Ijeoma Okoliegbe picked up the ‘Quality in Action’ award at the 2025 Chief Scientific Officer’s Awards. Her role, which combines infection prevention and control expertise with an interest in the healthcare built environment is the first of its kind in Scotland. Her win recognised the significant impact she has had in this field since her appointment last year.
Ijeoma said: As a healthcare scientist, I am passionate about using data to inform quality improvement having undertaken several QI projects as well as published some of these in peer reviewed journals. This award highlights the support I have received from the infection prevention and control team and demonstrates the amount of work which has led to such achievement.”
Ijeoma joined NHS Grampian in 2019 following her doctoral training in Microbiology with the University of Aberdeen. In 2020, she responded to the challenges the department faced during the pandemic. She contributed to the introduction of new assays for SARS-CoV-2 testing in NHS Grampian’s virology lab. Her work was essential in the implementation of point of care respiratory virus testing at the front door assessment units. This was particularly important during winter pressure, where it helped managing patient flow, downstream patient placement, facilitating early discharge, antimicrobial stewardship and initiating treatment in the high-risk patient group. Her work in this field has been published in several peer-review journals. She was appointed to her current specialist role in 2024.
Dr Noha El Sakka, consultant in medical microbiology and lead infection prevention and control doctor, added: “We are all absolutely delighted with Ijeoma’s very well-deserved win. She was up against some very tough competition; her victory highlights the quality and importance of the work healthcare scientists are doing in Grampian.”
📸: Dr Ijeoma Okoliegbe
Healthcare Science NES
17/03/2025
It was amazing to see how Healthcare Scientists across the UK celebrated last week!
If you missed any of our five newsletters, these are all available on our news page in our Healthcare Science Week post. Link in bio 🌐
15/03/2025
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on : https://scim.ag/41GYN6G
Have you ever wondered what happens to your biopsy or tissue taken when you had an operation? Lets find out! 😄
Many senior healthcare scientists have advanced roles. Here Vicky Ritchie, Clinical scientist in GI Physiology explains her advanced role in reporting capsule endoscopy studies.
12/03/2025
Senior healthcare scientists are often involved in research and take on advanced roles. In this video Vicky Ritchie, Principal Healthcare scientist in GI Physiology is explaining a rare disease called achalasia and her involvement in the specialist one stop clinic in NHSG. Vicky is the first known Healthcare scientist nationally to undertake these consultation clinics.
https://youtu.be/1vcveo6tvG4?si=lU-cVQB8afk7UM5A
Digest This! Achalasia In this episode of Digest This! Dr Francesca Moroni, consultant gastroenterologist in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, expertly interviews Ms Vicky Ritchie, GI spec...
11/03/2025
Sarah Smith, Associate Director for Healthcare Science, NHS education for Scotland, shares a quote on the Healthcare Science workforce and in Scotland in today's newsletter.
Read the full quote from Sarah in our Day 2 newsletter, link in bio 🌐
Here's Liam, our GI Physiology specialist explaining how we test gullet function in the lab.
10/03/2025
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