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Six times safer in Zambia

And thanks to a longstanding relationship with the Zambian Ministry of Health, Lifebox co-founder the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) and the Zambian Anaesthesia Development Project through the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET), the impact is really starting to show. Since 2012 we’ve trained more than 80% of all Clinical Officer […]

#SaferSurgeryZambia

All roads lead to Zambia this week, as we co-host the 4th Lifebox and SAFE Obstetric Anaesthesia course in Ndola, the third-largest city. We are so proud to be collaborating with our co-founders the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), alongside the Zambian Ministry of Health and the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) […]

A two-way street

You can cite the right statistics. You can read the New York Times over morning coffee. But stepping up to the operating room table while the sweat drips off your forehead? As colleagues in low-resource settings know, that’s when unsafe surgery gets personal. Just ask Steve Brosnan and Corinna Matt, consultants from the Luton & Dunstable University Hospital in […]

THET – Instagram vacation!

  Lifebox and THET both have long histories of partnership work in Zambia – alongside local and international colleagues, with support from the Ministry of Health, to assist anaesthesia providers across the country with essential equipment and education. Since 2012, we’ve trained more than 80% of all Clinical Officer Anaesthetists in Zambia – bringing safer practice to approximately 60% of the […]

Universal Health Coverage Day

Saturday 12 December is Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC), a rallying call to action to ensure global access to affordable and quality health care services for all when needed. Health for all?  We say: yes! So do our colleagues in Zambia on the frontline of surgery and anaesthesia practice. And so does the World Health […]

“Listen mode” – a Surgical Checklist webinar

But systems change means culture change, and culture change is hard. When it comes to effecting the global revolution in safety that the pilot study proved possible – a 40% reduction in complications and mortality – even the Checklist’s founding family admit there’s a long way to go. Luckily there’s also a lot of learning […]

Lifebox News – September edition

Last month we… Returned to the international anaesthesia stage, with a consultation, education sessions, and our founder and chair Atul Gawande giving the keynote address at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Hong Kong Made headlines in the Wall Street Journal! Watched the trailer for our documentary, The Checklist Effect – again (and again) Listened […]

British Medical Journal – campaign coverage, 2012-2013

In 2012 Lifebox was selected as the British Medical Journal’s holiday charity for the second year in a row. The campaign raised more than £27,000, and will enable us to support more than 160 additional operating theatres this year.  As impressive as this is, the impact is much greater than the sum of its parts. […]