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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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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.

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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.

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An ethical elective focused on improving paediatric cancer care

Date: 29 August 2024

In this blog, medical student Maria Izmirlieva describes her ethical elective working with the Paediatric Cancer Partnership in Kampala.

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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.

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“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.

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Understanding the barriers to accessing cancer care 

Date: 13 August 2024

In this blog, medical student Tadeusz Ciecierski-Holmes describes his ethical elective at the Uganda Cancer Institute, supporting the team to make the most efficient use of time and resources.

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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.

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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.

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Slowly improving antimicrobial stewardship practices

Date: 26 July 2024

Stuart Drazich-Taylor is a microbiology doctor who spent three months working with the Kampala Cambridge Antimicrobial Stewardship health partnership in Uganda. Here he reflects on the experience, learnings and what he plans to do next.

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How pharmacists can empower other healthcare professionals

Date: 25 July 2024

Bobby Shum is a pharmacist and a firm believer in the vital role pharmacists can play in public health. He recently returned from three months working with the Kampala Cambridge Antimicrobial Stewardship health partnership in Uganda.

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How hospital laboratories can help tackle AMS: Reflections of a long-term volunteer in Kampala  

Date: 12 April 2024

One month into his placement, microbiologist Stuart Drazich-Taylor describes how sample processing works in Kampala and the critical role microbiology laboratories play in the surveillance of antimicrobial resistant organisms.

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Improving the Uganda paediatric oncology sample turnaround time

Date: 27 February 2024

East of England Global Health Fellow Philip Adedokun describes the steps being taken to work towards a faster and more accurate diagnostic process for children with cancer so that they start the correct treatment plan as soon as possible.

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