Blog Categories: Maternal & Neonatal Health
‘Building skills to support my NHS training’: reflections of a Global Health Fellow
Date: 9 December 2024
Eleanor Turnbull-Jones is an Infectious Diseases/General Medicine doctor in training at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and a Global Health Fellow. Here she explains why she took on the fellowship and the impact she’s been able to have.
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.
Finding ways to stop the spread of infection in maternity and neonatal care
Date: 9 October 2024
Tinotenda Manyere spent a month in Kenya supporting fellow nurses, midwives and mothers to implement infection prevention control practices to help reduce maternal and neonatal deaths.
Audit of C-section antibiotic use a step towards driving down resistance
Date: 4 September 2024
Medical student Emma Guenther helped audit antibiotic use in C-section patients in Kampala, which could improve prescribing practices that will help drive down antimicrobial resistance.
“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.
Tackling Maternal Emergencies: Reflections of a Global Health Fellow
Date: 17 July 2024
As part of her fellowship year Kati spent a week in Kakamega, Kenya, co-delivering a refresher course on infection control, management of sepsis, postnatal care and major obstetric emergencies in a maternity setting.
A ‘bridge’ between countries: the huge value that diaspora staff bring to health partnerships
Date: 20 May 2024
Mercy Rebecca Adera is a staff nurse at the Rosie Hospital. Originally from Kenya, here she describes the experience of helping to deliver training in infection prevention control, management of sepsis and obstetric emergencies in Kakamega, western Kenya.
