Blog Categories: Critical Care
Reigniting a love of midwifery in Uganda
Date: 22 July 2025
Georgina Sellick is a critical care nurse and midwife. Here she explains how a week co-teaching and training Ugandan nurses and midwives has reignited her passion for staff learning and development.
Becoming a better educator by learning from different health systems
Date: 21 July 2025
Celeste Formenton is a Critical Care Practice Development Senior Sister at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CUH). Here she reflects on the progress made through the SCALE Critical Care Project and the impact it’s had on her as an educator.
Together we rise: building strength and ownership in Uganda’s healthcare future
Date: 16 July 2025
Global Health Fellow and Resuscitation Officer Margaret Baron-Catuday describes her renewed enthusiasm for global health work after leading train-the-trainer courses for critical care staff in Uganda.
Making maternity guidelines practical and woman-centred: reflections of a Global Health Fellow
Date: 3 July 2025
Global Health Fellow and Registered Midwife Chiara Valentini explains the personal and professional growth and learning gained from just one week working alongside Ugandan healthcare staff.
A week in Uganda: building sustainable critical care nursing
Date: 25 June 2025
Critical Care Education Lead Lisa Enoch explains the impact of a week in Kampala embedding skills and knowledge for both UK and Ugandan nurses, and why face-to-face visits are such an important component of health partnerships.
Friendship and a supportive learning environment: sharing critical care skills
Date: 22 December 2024
Critical care practice development nurse Gayle Brunskill describes her second three-week placement in Kampala sharing learning and embedding knowledge with Ugandan staff.
Gaining new perspectives delivering critical care training
Date: 13 November 2024
Bethany Andrews is a critical care nurse at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. She spent a week in Kampala delivering training with Ugandan faculty on the management of deteriorating patients. Here she explains more about the experience and why it happened at just the right time.
From Malawi to the UK: learnings from an elective in a different healthcare system
Date: 8 October 2024
Meet Adham Tarek Beshir, a final year medical student from Malawi who completed a six-week elective at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
Pride, resilience and teamwork: the experience of a critical care nurse in Kampala
Date: 21 August 2024
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) critical care nurse Elizabeth Walsh reflects on the renewed passion and enthusiasm for her job that a week working alongside Ugandan nurses has given her.
“One of the best weeks of my life”: reflections of a Cambridge midwife in Kampala
Date: 15 August 2024
Catherine Barlow is Lead Midwife for Maternal Medicine at The Rosie, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust. Here she reflects on a week in Kampala teaching critical care skills for obstetric patients.
The one-month elective that will make me a better doctor
Date: 1 August 2024
Mithylan Ganeshwaran describes his four-week ethical elective in Kampala, a transformative experience that provided a huge amount of hands-on learning and ignited a passion for emergency medicine.
Embedding learning and empowering nurses: reflections on a four-week critical care placement
Date: 31 July 2024
Critical Care Practice Development Nurse Livi Rees joined the SCALE Critical Care Project in Kampala for a month to help deliver and embed learning that will strengthen patient care in adult intensive care services.
