Kings-THET-Somaliland Partnership (KTSP)

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Erin in Health Links

About the Link

THET began working in Somaliland in 2000 after a fact finding visit by two doctors and a nurse from Kings College Hospital (KCH). One of the doctors, himself a member of the Somaliland diaspora, had managed the country’s main referral hospital before the outbreak of war. The purpose of the visit was to assess the status of public health facilities in the country.

As a result of this visit, a Link was established between Kings College Hospital (KCH) and two hospitals in Somaliland – the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital & Boroma Group Hospital – and the then newly established Amoud Medical School at Boroma University. Initially, the Link focussed on training staff to improve standards of care and providing academic support to the medical school curriculum. As the partnership developed, it soon began to attract attention from other healthcare institutions such as Hargeisa Group Hospital (HGH), the main government run referral hospital.

Funding from donors such as Comic Relief and DfID has allowed the Link to evolve and expand its work to a much wider range of partners including local health institutions, professional associations, regional health authorities and the Ministry of Health and Labour. THET’s work in Somaliland exists as a partnership between KCH, THET and Somaliland healthcare facilities and institutes, a fact that is reflected in the name of the Link: the Kings-THET-Somaliland Partnership (KTSP).

KTSP draws on the knowledge, skills and experience of dedicated health professionals at KCH to provide professional support to Somaliland partner organisations. These professionals come from a wide variety of healthcare disciplines and KTSP benefits from the fact that it can draw on expert knowledge from the fields of surgery, paediatrics, public health, internal medicine, mental health, obstetrics and gynaecology, pathology and laboratory medicine, nursing and midwifery. The partnership is driven by the needs of partner healthcare institutions in Somaliland and allows them to identify areas where input from the UK can make a difference. Programmes are designed that have achievable goals and that are able to have lasting impacts.

Fields of work

Emergency medicine, Management / Human Resource, Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health, Nursing, Orthopaedics, Pathology, Primary Health Care, Reproductive Health, Research, Surgery

Contact information

UK
THET
Somaliland Programme Team
1 Wimpole St (5th Floor)
London W1G 0AE

Tel: 020 7290 3892
Email: info@thet.org

Ms JC Phillips
International Development Unit Coordinator
International Development Unit
Room 253, 2nd Floor
Weston Education Centre
Cutcombe Road
London SE5 9RJ

Tel: 020 7848 5866
Email: julie.phillips@kch.nhs.uk

www.kch.nhs.uk/about/strategies-policies/projects/ktsp/