We set up and manage health partnerships whereby UK-based healthcare professionals provide volunteer support individually or in teams to healthcare institutions in other countries. It’s a reciprocal model of learning and support to both improve healthcare systems in other countries, as well as bringing new skills and knowledge back into the NHS. We also provide support, guidance and funding to individuals and teams involved in global health volunteering beyond our partnerships.
Our work is tailored to the needs of our partners, which may be hospitals, ministries of health, academic and research institutions, and other charitable organisations, and to the very different environments in which they operate and challenges that they face. We structure our partnerships around the Principles of Partnership.
Our work divides into six parts, we:
- set up and manage relationships with in-country partners
- select and recruit high-quality members (volunteers)
- train and prepare them to perform efficiently in their new environments and how to achieve the most from their visit
- arrange the vital logistics of travel as well as the necessary planning to ensure good governance and implementation of our volunteer placements
- welcome and host our overseas partners in Cambridge to exchange ideas and develop good practice
- develop broader relationships and partnerships in the UK and across the world
What is a health partnership?
A long-term link between health institutions in high and low/middle-income countries, health partnerships facilitate the flow of ideas and expertise between the different healthcare systems to strengthen services and improve patient outcomes. Health partnerships achieve this through training programmes, sharing and learning, based on the healthcare needs of the overseas partner.
THET has been a close partner to Cambridge Global Health Partnerships since its inception, and with good reason. We are long-standing admirers of the catalytic role it plays in projecting the expertise of Cambridge individuals and institutions globally, and especially for the benefit of countries with few resources. We share a common belief that this work brings great benefit to those involved, and to the UK more generally. We have also worked together to shape the ethical framework in which such work takes place, notably through the development of the Principles of Partnership. Long may our partnership thrive.
Ben Simms Chief Executive Officer, THET
Browse the places where CGHP supports health partnerships and projects, or see the broad list of health professions and specialities our members bring.
