Dr Esayas Mustefa – Becoming the calm in any storm
Dr Esayas Mustefa is the only general surgeon within a 130km radius in Ethiopia. When we trained him during one of our UK HEST courses, we knew we’d…
Hospice Ukraine raises over £50,000 to better serve the terminally ill
Photo credit: Hospice Ukraine and the Royal Society of Medicine, London As part of a special Hospice Ukraine event raising funds for palliative care…
“Seeing Syria again, despite its sadness, there’s still a sense of pride”
Dr Ammar Darwish has been part of the Foundation’s family for over a decade. Ammar volunteered as a trauma surgeon in Aleppo when Syria, his home…
Join our team as Programmes Manager
Job title: Programmes Manager Summary: This role will be responsible for the planning and execution of overseas and UK-delivered Hostile Environment…
FDNF Conference 2023 brings future war doctors together
We brought 54 medical students from Universities across the UK together for our first in-person Friends of David Nott Foundation (FDNF) Society…
“The need in Syria is astonishing”
We’ve just returned from northwest Syria after training 23 local doctors to surgically treat complex wounds caused by the earthquake that shattered…
Leaving a lasting legacy with 14 Yemeni surgeons
Dr Shabnam Parkar is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. After many years treating children in the UK and providing…
Training Syrian doctors treating earthquake victims
We are joining forces with Action for Humanity (AfH) to train Syrian doctors in the surgical skills needed to treat and rehabilitate those injured in…
“As soon as Russia invaded, we started seeing the wounded”
After troops crossed Ukraine’s borders in March 2022, Igor Belkin, a surgeon from Zaporizhzhia, watched our translated war surgery videos in a bid to…
The Rt Hon. The Baroness Boothroyd OM, our beloved Patron
Baroness Boothroyd, David Nott and Elly Nott at the launch of the David Nott Foundation, 24 February 2016. It was with great sadness that we learnt…
Joining forces with WHO to train 30 Moldovan surgeons
At the invitation of the World Health Organisation (WHO), we were honoured to train 30 surgeons during our first Hostile Environment Surgical…
Earthquake causes widespread devastation in Turkey and Syria
We are appalled by the devastating earthquake which struck northwest Syria and southern Turkey. It is apparent that there has been destruction on an…