UK-Med team return from Rwanda
9th August 2019
Read an update from Benjamin Black, who was part of a small UK-Med team that has recently returned from Rwanda following a trip to support preparedness efforts....
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Member Voices: Debbie Hawker
9th August 2019
Paediatric nurse and UK-Med member Stephanie Chadwick shares her experience of working as part of the UK-Med team supporting the UK Emergency Medical Team response to an outbreak of diphtheria spreading through Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, part of UK aid’s wider response to the...
Member Voices: Liz Wennington
8th August 2019
Liz Wennington, Emergency Nurse Practitioner and UK-Med member shares her experiences of her capacity building trip to Myanmar with UK-Med supporting the UK Emergency Medical Team....
Member Voices: Becky Platt
5th August 2019
World Humanitarian Day falls on 19th August, and so throughout the month, we’ll be hearing from our members who have delivered emergency healthcare around the world. Becky was part of the UK-Med team funding supporting the UK Emergency Medical Team response to an outbreak of diphtheria spreading through Rohingya refugee camps in...
Member Voices: Stephen Chadwick
1st August 2019
Surgeon Stephen Chadwick shares his story of how his long and varied career led him to join the UK- Med team- and how he has found it so far...
Fabulous fundraising
15th July 2019
Great Manchester Run Thanks to everyone that has supported our recent fundraising towards our deployment fund – both at the Great Manchester Run, which raised £3,000, and our first ever pub quiz. With your support, we can train more medical teams to respond quickly to global...
From the field: David Anderson
11th July 2019
Cyclone Idai affected 1.85 million people, including 1 million children. The death toll was reported as 602 people but owing to the extremely rural environment and the impact on communication this is likely to have been under-reported. There were also over 1,600 people who were...
Outbreak response
11th July 2019
When an outbreak flares, the more rapid the response, the better the outcome....
Register member Martin Griffiths named as London’s first violence reduction chief by the NHS
11th July 2019
One of our register members Martin Griffiths has been named as London’s first violence reduction chief by the NHS. ...
Growing our registers and deployment opportunities
11th July 2019
As disasters become more complex, frequent and severe, UK-Med is working towards being better prepared to meet growing humanitarian need and deploy more frequently....