Care and safety in health maintenance 

The Fundamental Care and Safety group includes prevention of infection (led by Jacqui Prieto); and nutrition (led by Sue Green). This group has joint research projects with the CLAHRC Fundamental Care programme (led by Peter Griffiths and Lisette Schoonhoven)

Our three themes are:

Our three themes have programmes of research on

• bladder and bowel management (with a focus on continence technologies such as urinary catheters) led by Mandy Fader;
• medicines optimisation (promoting the safe and effective use of medicines) led by Sue Latter; and
• skin health (in particular techniques to identify risk and prevent the development pressure ulcers) led by Dan Bader.