Our story
Five billion people worldwide lack access to safe, skilled surgical care.
Healthcare can be stretched to breaking point by conflict and catastrophic events, like earthquakes or floods. Injuries like shrapnel, blast and crush wounds are complex, specialist surgical skills scarce, medical resources limited, surgical teams stretched thin, and emergency rooms overwhelmed. Hospitals can also be targeted as a weapon of war, inflicting further chaos.
When volunteering his trauma surgery skills at times of urgent need in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Nepal and beyond, our Co-Founder Professor David Nott started teaching at the end of his days operating.
He shared decades of knowledge with frontline doctors, equipping them with the confidence and skills that helped them save more lives against the odds.
Today, that’s what we do. Built on David’s 30 years of frontline experience, we upskill medical professionals to save more lives in countries impacted by war and catastrophe.
“I’ve seen the horrors of war. But I’ve also seen the power of sharing life saving knowledge. That’s why we do what we do.”
David Nott, Co-founder
Our values
When we bear witness to conflict and catastrophe, we are moved to act. We offer education, community and friendship to every medical professional we train, and we speak up about what we see.
We arm doctors living and working in conflict and catastrophe with world-class surgical training. We do this by recruiting experienced trainers to deliver our courses where they are needed most.
Thanks to the commitment and resilience of our trainers, we empower skilled, resilient doctors in conflict and catastrophe to face any trauma injury and strengthen their own health systems.