UK-Med has said goodbye to our Deployment Manager Rachel Fletcher, who has begun work with the WHO in Geneva. Rachel has been instrumental in the ongoing development of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UKEMT) programme and we thank her for all of her work. She will continue to contribute to the development of the global Emergency…

UK-Med is a world renowned charity based in Manchester, UK. We recruit and train UK health care workers to provide a volunteer emergency medical response at times of catastrophe overseas. We are a core partner in the delivery of the UK Emergency Medical Team programme funded by the Department for International Development. We have experienced…

An MSF video report from the day can be viewed here I have just spent the last week working and training alongside MSF Geneva with their RDSU surgical field hospital in a peer learning exercise.  I was joined by Helen Jordan our training manager and two UK EMT members Stacy Ibbott (Paramedic / Medical Logsitisc) and…

UK-Med is pleased to announce that CEO Professor Tony Redmond has been invited to give the opening address at an upcoming meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine. Negotiating the humanitarian space: Where is the UK responsibility? will take place on Thursday 8 June and will host an array of speakers exploring topics such as civil-military relations, violence…

We are seeking a Health Adviser to UK-Med’s register of members who will be a health care professional with an understanding of humanitarian emergencies, able to provide strategic leadership to the recruitment and development of volunteer clinicians. The post holder will contribute to the management of deployment readiness activities for register members and to training…

The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) is a multidisciplinary professional association whose mission is the global improvement of prehospital and emergency health care, public health, and disaster health and preparedness. At their 2017 Congress in Toronto last week, UK-Med CEO, Professor Tony Redmond officially became President of the organisation. WADEM is a member-based…

UK-Med’s academic partners at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (part of the University of Manchester) have developed a short online course on Global Health and Humanitarianism. HCRI’s massive open online course (MOOC) will discuss the question ‘is humanitarianism an effective, justifiable and sustainable response to ill-health, inequality, injustice and war?’ HCRI’s work and teaching…

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Operations Manager with humanitarian and/or emergency health response experience to provide leadership and strategic oversight to all activities relating to delivery of the UK EMT programme during this busy period of development. The post holder will be experienced in programme planning, review of systems and resources, and team…

On 21-22 April, UK-Med will be attending the annual RCS Global Surgical Frontiers Conference to speak to attendees about the UK Emergency Medical Team (UKEMT) and to recruit a small number of surgeons and related clinicians to join the UKEMT register. We are particularly looking for fully-trained and experienced emergency General and Plastic surgeons, especially…