David Anderson on secondment to the NHS Nightingale North West
15th April 2020
Our Humanitarian Health Advisor David Anderson has been seconded to the NHS Nightingale North West as the Director of Quality and IPC...
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Pregnant women, women in labour, newborns and children form around 75% of those affected by humanitarian crises globally
15th April 2020
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....
With the world in lockdown, we’ve moved some support online
15th April 2020
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....
UK-Med Head Office moves online
17th March 2020
Following guidance from the UK government, UK-Med has moved our Manchester office online. All staff will be working remotely so that we can support efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 at home as well as internationally. We have several active responses ongoing during a time...
“We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear.”
12th March 2020
That was the message from Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Director-General. In a media briefing yesterday, the WHO Director-General’s stated the COVID19 outbreak had been characterized a pandemic....
UK-Med supporting response to COVID-19 outbreak
10th March 2020
UK-Med is supporting the UK Emergency Medical Team response to the COVID-19 outbreak, as announced earlier today as part of a broader announcement of the UK’s response to the outbreak. ...
Member Voices: From the Field in Samoa
17th February 2020
From 1-28 December 2019, UK-Med deployed a team of 29 clinicians to Apia, Samoa to support existing national and international efforts to control the measles outbreak....
The last measles in-patient in Samoa comes home
29th January 2020
Everyone at UK-Med was delighted to see reports last week that the last two measles patients, an 11-month-old and a one-year-old, were discharged from the main hospital in Apia....
Improving our membership experience
9th January 2020
Over the last year and a half, UK-Med has been engaged in the process of reviewing and updating its membership database system....
Linda Doull on Humanitarian Coordination and Changing Need
9th January 2020
Linda Doull (WHO Global Health Cluster Coordinator) speaks about humanitarian coordination and changing need at the annual UK EMT Members’ Meeting in November 2019....