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Sending our professionals overseas is one of the best things the NHS can do

12 July 2016

Sending NHS staff overseas is as vital to the NHS as 0.7 per cent aid contribution is to UK plc....

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Raising the Profile of Family Planning in Uganda

7 March 2017

Clare Goodhart, reflects on the progress made in the partnership between the Royal College of General Practitioners and Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda....

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Characterising partnerships and measuring their impacts, both intended and unintended

14 November 2016

Lawrence Loh discusses highlights from a session he shared: “Networks for collaboration: partnership communities and volunteer contributions.”...

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A Life-line for Rural Communities: Training Community Health Workers in Somaliland

24 March 2015

THET's Timur, describes his visit to a rural village in Somaliland to see how a newly trained group of Community Health Workers are improving healthcare for the local pop...

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Maximising the potential for further funding in Mozambique.

25 October 2016

Sarah Cavanagh and Peter Donaldson, reflect on forging links with the Rotary Club to secure potential funding for the future...

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New Partnerships Essential for Global Health Success

22 October 2015

Since the HPS launch in 2011, more than 1,500 NHS professionals have volunteered to train over 40,000 health workers across 29 countries....

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Tackling chronic diseases in Ethiopia

31 October 2016

Dr Alice Holmes and Dr Arla Gamper travelled to Northern Ethiopia in 2016. In Gondar, they assisted with data collection for a novel study concerning diabetes....

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A New Generation Takes On Chronic Malnutrition

4 August 2016

THET’s Communications Officer, Timur Bekir, traveled to Lusaka, Zambia, to document the activity of two ground breaking training courses in nutrition....

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BMET training in Zambia: the money

10 October 2016

Chris Mol shares his experiences on what it means to be in what the ‘International Development’ world calls a ‘low resourced country’....

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Contributing to a new movement in anaesthesia care

10 August 2016

Laura Macpherson, Grants Officer at THET, shares her impressions following a recent monitoring visit to health partnership projects in Ethiopia...

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Developing village-based community mental health care in southern Malawi

20 March 2015

Wright, charts the development of partnership project work between the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York in the UK and Zomba Mental Health Services...

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Mutually Reinforcing Strategies

10 September 2015

Volunteer UK Paediatricians explore how mutually reinforcing strategies can improve blood sugar monitoring...

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