Welcoming our new CEO

Having founded the charity in 2015 and led it as CEO for nine years, Elly Nott has stepped down as Chief Executive to take up an alternative role in the leadership of the organisation. As Elly embarks on her new role, the charity warmly welcomes Dr James Gough as its leader. James is a former military and aid doctor, having served with the British…

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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…

Bearing witness to the medical needs in Gaza

Our Medical Director Dr Ammar Darwish embarked on an operating surgical…

Teaching 86 war doctors in Vinnytsia, Ukraine

86 more Ukrainian doctors are now armed with trauma surgery skills…

“Maternal health – it’s a societal barometer.”

Every two minutes, a woman loses her life to preventable causes…

Our new Betty Boothroyd Scholarship Fund

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Scholarship…

Joining forces with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

In a landmark collaboration aimed at addressing the critical shortage of…