30 years ago, UK-Med came into being as the successor of SMART – the South Manchester Accident Rescue Team. What started as a small team of NHS doctors and nurses supporting the ambulance service around Manchester evolved to become an international humanitarian charity. The goal...
In response to one of the worst cholera outbreaks in Zambia, UK-Med specialists deployed as the UK Emergency Medical Team (EMT) in mid-January to support the local health response....
How do you build a hospital in a conflict zone like Gaza? David Anderson, Senior Health Advisor, explains how he and the UK-Med team built a hospital from scratch....
Since our Ukraine response first began, we’ve provided more than 20,000 medical consultations through mobile clinics. 43 per cent of people we’ve treated have been displaced, and three quarters of them are women. Here are the stories of four of those people, each of whom...
NHS Anaesthetist and UK-Med medic, Dr. Matt Newport, provides a harrowing and honest account of working in Al Aqsa Hospital; one of the last remaining hospitals still partially functional in Gaza....
Two years of war have left millions of Ukrainians in need of psychological first aid. Meet Dmytro, a UK-Med psychologist who is on the frontline providing mental health support for impacted communities....
Two years ago, in the days after the full scale invasion of Ukraine, UK-Med began sending medical teams to the country. Since then, we've built our first country programme and largest humanitarian response to date with the help of our supporters....
It was a cold February day when a lumbering column of Russian tanks passed through the small village in eastern Ukraine where Volodymyr lived with his wife. By the rumble of their engines, Volodymyr and his neighbours learned that their country was being invaded. ...
Field hospital training is important to prepare our medics for deployment. This is how we train them to provide life-saving emergency health care in a disaster or conflict....
2023 was a year of emergencies. As the only British NGO accredited as an Emergency Medical Team we rapidly deploy to conflicts and disasters, and have done so in numerous countries this year....