Hollywood star Alan Cumming has allowed a nurse to manage his Twitter and Instagram pages – to highlight frontline workers fighting Covid-19. David Anderson was given access to the actor’s platforms for 24 hours to talk about his role in battling the pandemic. The 51-year-old emergency medicine...
Our Humanitarian Health Advisor David Anderson has been seconded to the NHS Nightingale North West as the Director of Quality and IPC...
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....
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....
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...
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 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. ...
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....
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....
Over the last year and a half, UK-Med has been engaged in the process of reviewing and updating its membership database system....