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The David Nott Foundation is a UK charity dedicated to training surgeons in conflict zones and austere environments, giving them the skills needed to save more lives. We do this by delivering our Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST) courses in territories affected by conflict, such as Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somaliland and Ukraine.…

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Apply for our new Medical Inventory and Procurement Officer role

The David Nott Foundation is a UK charity dedicated to training…

A milestone mission in Ukraine

In October, we partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO), UOSSM,…

Stars align at Almeida Theatre to support our mission

On Sunday 13th October, the Almeida Theatre welcomed an audience to…

October 7th: A catalyst for unrelenting crisis and the fight to save lives

October 7th is a day that remains seared into our collective…

Addressing the crisis in healthcare

As conflicts continue to devastate civilian lives across the globe, healthcare…

World Humanitarian Day

On World Humanitarian Day, we perhaps allow ourselves a few more…

Doctors’ needs in the West Bank

Over 300 days have passed since Hamas’s invasion of Israel and…

Bringing future humanitarian surgeons together for the first time

This month, we hosted our first annual Trainees of the David…

Welcoming our new CEO

Having founded the charity in 2015 and led it as CEO…

Our localisation and training in Ukraine

This June, we partnered with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Ukraine…

Serving low-resource hospitals in the DRC

This year, we were contacted by a doctor from the Democratic…

24 doctors trained during 1st UK course with Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

For the first time in partnership with Royal College of Surgeons…

“There’s no bias towards class, gender, or religion.”

Dominic’s sister, Lucy Cahillane, passed away on March 12, 2022. After…

Friends of David Nott Foundation Conference – leaders of tomorrow

This month, we held our third Friends of David Nott Foundation…

“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…

The anaesthetist in a war zone

It takes a team to save a life in a war…

Preparing 36 Kuwaiti doctors for surgery in Gaza

With support from the Foreign Common Development Office (FCDO) and Kuwaiti…

“The patients. The families. They’re all in my head.”

Our Co-Founder David Nott recently travelled to Rafah, Gaza, to help…