The path to becoming a deployable UK-Med register member is changing. At UK-Med we have used this year's disruption in face-to-face events to carry out a comprehensive training review. We're keen to share this with you now as we roll out new and updated materials...
On Tuesday 4th August a devastating explosion at Beirut Port left over 300,000 homeless, 6,500 injured, 190 tragically dead and scores missing. Three days later, a group of UK Emergency Medical Team members travelled to Beirut to complete an initial assessment of the situation. ...
Last week team leader Dr Jerome Sess returned from Cambodia. The MOH and WHO were pleased with the support offered....
Meet Veronica Sanchez. She has been working with UK-Med in Rwanda since last June on Ebola preparedness. Now, in collaboration with WHO-EMT Secretariat, her treatment centre design for COVID-19 patients has been adopted by WHO to tackle the pandemic....
Brian Magowan is a Consultant Obstetrician based in Scotland, and he is the Co-Chair of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Guideline development committee....
Sophia Turner tells us of her motivations for joining UK-Med and the importance of child safeguarding training. Sophia got an honourable mention for her entry into Year of Nurse and Midwife Nursing in Focus Photography Competition ...
To mark the WHO year of the nurse and midwife, we’re hearing from new member Faith Atim about her reasons for becoming a midwife in the first place, and joining UK-Med as part of our Outbreak Response Register...
Every sector is needing to quickly adapt to the challenges presented by COVID-19, including humanitarian response. As we lobby for a humanitarian corridor to allow our medical teams to provide support on the ground, we’ve also set up a remote technical support desk....
Over the last few weeks, our needs assessment team has been on the ground preparing response to the growing threat that COVID-19 poses to the thousands of migrants and refugees living in camps both on mainland Greece and the Aegean Islands....
UK-Med joins the team leading the build of Nightingale North West...