On January 26th, Orthopaedic Surgeon and UK-Med surgical lead Andy Kent led a team of 11 to Eswatini as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team response...
Alamia Annous is a UK-Med RCCE Advisor working as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s (UK EMT) response in Lebanon. Alamia is a teacher and has experience teaching vulnerable people...
John Irvine is an ICU nurse and UK-Med register member from Boness, near Glasgow. John first deployed as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) in Lebanon in September 2020 for nearly two and a half months. Following a short break, he returned...
UK-Med is pleased to announce it will continue to work for a further four more weeks in Eswatini. Although numbers of COVID-19 cases are now low across the country, the extension will enable the team to continue to...
UK-Med as part of the UK Medical Emergency Team deploys to Eswatini in Southern Africa to support health care teams fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Four British members of the international team fly from Heathrow today. ...
We’re proud to announce that UK-Med member Becky Platt received the Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) award in the 2021 New Year Honours for Services to Humanitarian Response...
“Things are changing so quickly – we might receive one protocol, and the next day it has already changed!” Operations Co-ordinator Daniella Ritzau-Reid reports from Lebanon....
"The universal horror of patients suffering away from loved ones. The anguish is the same in Laos or London or Armenia." Dr Rebecca Inglis writes about her experience as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s coronavirus response in Armenia at the end of...
As Lebanon records record numbers of daily COVID-19 cases, the authorities extend the country's state of emergency....
A UK-Med team including nurses, doctors and humanitarian health specialists is currently in Armenia, supporting the country’s response to COVID-19. We’re working there as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT), which is funded by UK Aid. Our work includes on-the-job support to help...