Our Health Progams Manager Rachel Fletcher recently attended the first WHO working group meeting on National Accreditation for EMTs. ...
The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo is continuing. ...
South Sudan has experienced ongoing internal conflict since independence in 2011. ...
Last week the Department for International Development sent a team to liaise with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Ministry of Health in Mozambique, to look at the next stage of the health response following the cyclone, which has hit millions of people across Mozambique,...
Update from our CEO David Wightwick (pictured centre), who is currently in Beira Mozambique In the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, myself and Rachel Fletcher have joined a DFID team supporting the health response in Mozambique. I am working currently with WHO in Beira and others on...
Following on from successful programme visits to Myanmar in 2017 with Humanity and Inclusion, a small UK Emergency Medical Team team will be going both to Mandalay and Yangon in late April 2019....
On May 19th, Team UK-Med (Iain, Becky, Liz, Liam, David, Lizzi, Freda, Jak, Ben, Brodie, Annie, Angela, Tom, Castas, Rich, Stephanie, Lucy and Holly) take on the Great Manchester Run. ...
The first Nutrition in Emergencies training was run on the 7th and 8th March, in Stockport....
I have been a GP for over 35 years but have always had an interest in working in resource-poor countries. ...
UK-Med is exploring options for members to deploy both within and outside of the UK EMT and we are currently in discussion with other NGOs to explore opportunities to deploy into their humanitarian operations....