16th October was World Anaesthesia Day focusing on occupational wellbeing

The morning handover starts with team introductions followed by an outline of each of the patients on the ward – where they are in their...

6 weeks have passed since the first case of Covid-19 was reported in my country, Ethiopia. It was the fear of coming to reality. Despite...

LMICs are both where innovation is needed most and equally where the frugal, elegant, and rapidly mobilised technologies

If necessity is the mother of invention, then perhaps there has never been a more urgent need for innovation to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges for medical education, one of the most prominent being the widespread cancellation of...

25th January 2020 I woke up in Hong Kong on the first day of Chinese New Year to an eerie feeling - the usual cheer of welcoming the New...

Dear friend, I am an anaesthetist in a low resource country. I am so glad you want to come to my country and support me, and my...

The QUESTION A staggering 1.3 billion people live with a visual impairment worldwide; 36 million of these are completely blind[1]. Visual...

Karen Chui Climate change is at the forefront of political discussions around the world. The social movement Extinction Rebellion brought...

Car vs car. Head-on collision. Head on windscreen collision. Headed to my local doctor. He watched and waited. Hours. Then sent me to...

Whilst conflict is a major barrier to general health provision in low and middle income countries (LMICs) its effect on maternal and...

One of the five key messages delivered by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery is that to reach a minimum operative volume of 5000...

The Air Pollution Problem In the last 15years UK diesel car use has risen from 12 to 40%. Light lorries and vans are 96% diesel....

As of the end of 2017, 68.5 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced from their homes largely as a result of conflict or...

Karen Chui On 14th March 2019 tropical Cyclone Idai swept through Southern Africa, destroying towns and villages in its path and...

If you’ve been awake the past couple of weeks, you won’t have been able to escape the news of Tropical Cyclone Idai. On 14th March 2019,...

There is no denying the healthcare work force inequity across the world. Ten years ago, the World Health Organisation described health...

The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery tried to raise awareness about access to surgery and provision of surgery around the world. The...

As a more globally focused medical culture begins to take hold of the UK medical workforce, more and more trainees are looking for an...