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News, events and stories from across the health partnership community. We would love to hear from you! If you have an idea for a piece or an account from a trip please contact our Communications Team: comms@thet.org

The NHS shouldn’t despair: We are a beacon for healthcare worldwide

Despite its current well-publicised problems, the NHS in its 70th anniversary year remains a shining example to the world on how to build an equitable health system....

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From healthworker shortfall to collective commitment. A week at the Human Resources for Health Forum in Dublin.

Over 1000 delegates from around the world met to reinforce a collective commitment to developing and making available the workforce required to deliver the SDGs....

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THET’s Response to the Dublin Declaration 2017

THET supports the spirit of the ‘Declaration on Human Resources for Health: Building the Health Workforce of the Future’ made at the HRH Forum 2017...

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‘A Year in the Tanzania Office’ – Godwin Kabalika, Country Director – THET Tanzania

In 2016, THET established an office in Dar es Salaam to deliver programmes and projects that support and focus on health workforce development. A year on we caught up wit...

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Rheumatic heart disease: a forgotten killer in low-income countries

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death and disability in the world today: over 17.5 million people die from cardiovascular disease every year....

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Global Health: From National Beginnings to International Partnerships

After six years of global health partnerships it is clear that the model has really come of age. The stats speak for themselves......

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A multi-pronged offensive against NCDs in rural Ethiopia

Toby asseses a multi-pronged offensive against NCDs in rural Ethiopia,targeting poor health literacy, lack of trained & located health staff & the absence of diagnostics....

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Re-learning that ‘worn out tools’ are still the most reliable

Sarah Cavanagh explores the lessons to be learnt from spending time volunteering overseas with health partnerships....

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From a New Director-General to Women Leaders in Global Health: A Week at the World Health Assembly

Andrew Jones looks at THET's relations with the WHO for the last two and half years....

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NHS expertise, how to reach its full potential

Our Volunteer Engagement Manager talks about the recommendations of the recently published IDC report and what it might mean for the future of volunteering from the NHS....

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Voluntary Engagement in Global Health

Graeme Chisholm, gives his reaction to the publication of the new framework for voluntary engagement in global health by the UK health sector...

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Global Health: The Northern Irish Approach

Professor Nathan Congdon explores the global vision work being done in Northern Ireland...

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