Blog Categories: Nursing
Meet the multidisciplinary team getting ready to make an impact in India
Date: 23 July 2025
Find out how a team of Allied Professionals and nurses will be supporting the delivery of healthcare and education to unserved communities and their motivations for volunteering their time and expertise.
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.
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.
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.
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.