Bringing future humanitarian surgeons together for the first time
This month, we hosted our first annual Trainees of the David Nott Foundation (TDNF) conference. The conference aimed to bring surgical trainees interested in global humanitarian careers together, to learn from our war doctors and take part in bespoke workshops. Held as a hybrid event at the University of Salford in Manchester, the conference…
Welcoming our new CEO
Having founded the charity in 2015 and led it as CEO for nine years,…
19 July 2024
Our localisation and training in Ukraine
This June, we partnered with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Ukraine…
5 July 2024
Serving low-resource hospitals in the DRC
This year, we were contacted by a doctor from the Democratic…
28 June 2024
24 doctors trained during 1st UK course with Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
For the first time in partnership with Royal College of Surgeons…
14 June 2024
“There’s no bias towards class, gender, or religion.”
Dominic’s sister, Lucy Cahillane, passed away on March 12, 2022. After…
6 June 2024
Friends of David Nott Foundation Conference – leaders of tomorrow
This month, we held our third Friends of David Nott Foundation…
22 May 2024
“If this training can work in Gaza, it can work anywhere else.”
Dr Israar Ul-Haq joined our HEST-UK (Hostile Environment Surgical Training-UK) course…
16 May 2024
Preparing 36 Kuwaiti doctors for surgery in Gaza
With support from the Foreign Common Development Office (FCDO) and Kuwaiti…
22 April 2024
“The patients. The families. They’re all in my head.”
Our Co-Founder David Nott recently travelled to Rafah, Gaza, to help…
22 April 2024
Bearing witness to the medical needs in Gaza
Our Medical Director Dr Ammar Darwish embarked on an operating surgical…
15 April 2024
Teaching 86 war doctors in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
86 more Ukrainian doctors are now armed with trauma surgery skills…
3 April 2024
“Maternal health – it’s a societal barometer.”
Every two minutes, a woman loses her life to preventable causes…
28 March 2024
Our new Betty Boothroyd Scholarship Fund
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Scholarship…
27 March 2024
Joining forces with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
In a landmark collaboration aimed at addressing the critical shortage of…
26 March 2024
103 surgical life savers in Tripoli, Libya
We’re back from a week in the Libyan city of Tripoli…
4 March 2024
Two years of war and two years of attacks on healthcare
Two years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the…
24 February 2024
Our second mission for Palestine’s medical workforce
In the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, tens of thousands have lost their…
14 February 2024