How to Build a Hospital in Gaza
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....
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Celebrating Women in Medicine: Courageous Care Amidst Chaos with Dr. Anna Joseph
5th April 2024
This editorial series will highlight some of our most inspirational women working on humanitarian responses with us, and their powerful stories of courage and compassion. This week, meet Dr. Anna Joseph, an Anaesthetist and Intensivist with over 20 years experience in the field, who has...
Mobile Clinics Bring Hope and Healthcare to Ukraine
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...
UK-Med Announces Strategic Partnership with Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce
19th March 2024
We are happy to announce that UK-Med and Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) have joined together in a strategic partnership to address critical health crises in countries affected by crisis, disaster, and conflict. ...
Al Aqsa: Supporting One of The Last Remaining Hospitals in Gaza
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....
No Ordinary Job: UK-Med’s Frontline Psychologists in Ukraine
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....
UK-Med Announces New Chair
28th February 2024
UK-Med announces its new Chair, David Whitney. Having spent the last fifty years as a leader across the public, university and not-for-profit health sectors, he brings a wealth of experience to the role, along with an understanding of the importance of UK-Med's work.  ...
Two Years of Lifesaving Healthcare in Ukraine
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....
Two Years On: UK-Med Continues to Provide Front Line Medical Care in Ukraine
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. ...
Training Today to Save Lives Tomorrow
15th January 2024
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....