Sophia Turner tells us of her motivations for joining UK-Med and the importance of child safeguarding training. Sophia got an honourable mention for her entry into Year of Nurse and Midwife Nursing in Focus Photography Competition ...
To mark the WHO year of the nurse and midwife, we’re hearing from new member Faith Atim about her reasons for becoming a midwife in the first place, and joining UK-Med as part of our Outbreak Response Register...
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....
Over the last few weeks, our needs assessment team has been on the ground preparing response to the growing threat that COVID-19 poses to the thousands of migrants and refugees living in camps both on mainland Greece and the Aegean Islands....
UK-Med joins the team leading the build of Nightingale North West...
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....