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Urgent recruitment: Lifebox Fellowship, Tanzania

The Fellowship will involve developing and delivering a sustainable and high-impact QI project in collaboration with local colleagues, in addition to taking part in delivery of anaesthesia care. Upon completion of the Fellowship, you can expect to have completed the ‘Anaesthesia in developing countries’ and ‘Improvement Science, Safe and Reliable Systems’ units within the RCOA […]

Urgent recruitment: Lifebox Fellowship, Tanzania

The Fellowship will involve developing and delivering a sustainable and high-impact QI project in collaboration with local colleagues, in addition to taking part in delivery of anaesthesia care. Upon completion of the Fellowship, you can expect to have completed the ‘Anaesthesia in developing countries’ and ‘Improvement Science, Safe and Reliable Systems’ units within the RCOA […]

Lifebox grant winners

The funding means that we’re able to launch an ambitious project in Tanzania – making surgery and anaesthesia safer across the north of the country. Lifebox will be partnering with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC), a large referral hospital that lies in the foothills of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. We have worked […]

Lifebox at THET Conference 2017

No better example than our WHO Surgical Safety Checklist implementation work in Tanzania, presented this week at the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET)’s Annual Conference. When it comes to fostering health partnerships, THET is leading the way in bringing together global health experts, funders and practitioners from the UK and beyond. This year their […]

OK!

According to OK Links, the amount spent on healthcare per person per year in Tanzania would buy one cappuccino in the UK. Maybe you’re reading this blog while you have a cup of coffee.  Certainly the author must admit that she’s got one to hand right now.  It’s impossible not to be shocked again and […]

Lifebox News – July edition

We understand you’re busy – so are we! If you haven’t had time to check in with Lifebox lately, here’s where you can get caught up.  Welcome to the July #LifeboxNews: highlights from a busy month in global surgery and anaesthesia. Last month we… Witnessed another #MyLifesavingOximeter moment in Uganda Shared the stage with our friends at […]

The power of Fellowship

How did the operating room teams manage with only one pulse oximeter between them? It was a question of who had the sickest patient. Staring at the schedule you’d say, “Who’s in the ICU?” or, “We’ve got a really sick baby we’re about to take into surgery.” Every day robbing Peter to pay Paul. The […]

Summiting Kilimanjaro to Support Safer Surgery

How did you become passionate about promoting safe surgery and anesthesia? [EF] Five years ago this month I was fortunate start a Fellowship with the Lifebox Foundation, working to improve patient safety in global surgery and anesthesia across a number of low-income countries. This was a unique opportunity to learn about the gap in safe […]

Hot off the press

If you’ve seen our excitement on Facebook or watched us struggle to contain our characters on Twitter, you’ll know that we’ve got some big news to share. The British Medical Journal, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the U.K., has – well – we’ll let them tell you: “Christmas is coming and this week […]