Wales fo Africa Health Links Group

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Wales for Africa Health Links Group
Biku Ghosh Chairman Coordinator, Southern
Ethiopia Gwent Health Link
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Wales for Africa- October 2006

• Focus Sub-Saharan Africa
• Commitment by WAG to contribute
• - towards delivery of MDGs
• - response to disasters and emergencies overseas
• Key statements to encourage
• - public sector placements and
• twinning
• - international sustainable
• development volunteering to the
• Welsh public and public sector staff
• - disaster preparedness
• Context
• Mutuality benefits to overseas partners and
  citizens of Wales

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Welsh Health CircularWHC(2006)070

• Title NHS Health Links with Sub-Saharan Africa
  and other Developing health Systems
• Key statements
• -Chief Executives to ensure commitment to
  overseas links and support of MDGs within stated
  goals of their NHS organisation
• -CPD policies to be amended to allow visits,
  secondments, exchanges and management of projects
  as one of the options allowed to NHS employees
• Context
• Mutuality benefits to overseas partners and
  citizens of Wales

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Wales for Africa Health Links group

• Aims
• Facilitate a co-ordinated and effective approach
  to promote support the development of NHS Links
  in Wales
• Provide a point of contact for those seeking to
  interface with the international health links
  community in Wales

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Wales for Africa Health Links Group
Aims Support good practice in monitoring and
evaluation of links Contribute to the
development of appropriate standards against
which organisational engagement with the global
health agenda can be measured. Share experiences
with and contribute to UK wide approach in
development of NHS links with sub-Saharan Africa
in order to help these countries to reach MDG
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Dolen Cymru Wales-Lesotho Link
FIRST COUNTRY-TO-COUNTRY
TWINNING 1985 www.dolencymru.com

• Generic link involving many aspects of
  contemporay life in Wales and Lesotho
• Health links
• - mental health training
• - twinning of Cardiff and Vale NHS
  with Maseru
• - paediatric and adult HIV work
• - qualitative analysis
• - Flying Doctor
• - secondment of health personnel training
• - student exchanges, medical equipment

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RCT Mbale Coalition Against Poverty
Communities link Partnerships Overseas Networking
Trust www.pont-mbale.org.uk

• -Multi-sectoral partnerships between
• Wales Uganda
• -Networking Govt NGO partners
• -PHC capacity building through training
• community Health Volunteers
• CPD, monitoring, evaluation and review
• built in governance, sharing best practice
• -Hospital link

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Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (Swansea) University NHS
Trust Links www.swanih.org

• Royal Victoria Medical School, Hospital,Gambia
  -student exchange, audit
• University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• E-Learning, Evaluation
• www.MedicalTeaching.org
• Childrens and Maternity Hospitals, Freetown,
  Sierra Leone

Getting to know you! Gambian and Swansea medical
students
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Southern Ethiopia Gwent Health Linkwww.ethiopiagw
entlink.org

• The link initiated
• CME for the health officers since 2002
• (over 200 HO trained plus 300 students in
  emergency skills)
• CME for the medical laboratory technicians
  since 2003 (over 120 trained)
• CME for the midwives since 2006 (120
  trained)
• Training the trainers programme since 2006

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Southern Ethiopia Gwent Health link

• Developing exemplar health centres
• 3 health centres (300,000 population) are being
  supported through
• On site Skills training
• Provision of essential and emergency equipment
• Working with the local
• community (memorandum of understanding signed)
• Systematic evaluation

Immediate needs identified Skills Training,
Help with transfer of critically ill patients
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Glan Clwyd Hosanna Hospital link
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Wales for Africa Health Links Group
So far 22 established health links -Dolen
country twinning -7 Trust links ( from 4
Trusts in Wales) -11 University links (from 2
Universities Cardiff and Swansea) -2 LHB links
(RCT - Mbale Powys - Kenya) Hay on Wye GP link
with Timbaktu / Mali
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Wales for Africa Health Links Group
Integrated with existing health care system and
national programmes - both primary and secondary
care Building local capacity through training
and skills Focused on the Millennium
Development Goals Learn from research and share
experience and best practice Evaluation Aimed
at improving primary care at community level
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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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UN pilot Wales for Africa Gold Star community
project

• Aims
• Community partnerships between Wales and Africa
  in linking, learning and developing a more just
  and sustainable world for the future generations
• Focus on
• MDGs, Social Cohesion, Child welfare
• Fair trade, Climate change
• By May 2008
• Eight community links established
• Eleven sectoral links in progress
• Nineteen more interested to start

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What Wales can share

• Wide experience in international health linking
• Model of health links cooperating and learning
  from each other
• Primary care Community linking experience
• Explicit Wales Assembly support

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Why NHS Links? Eldryd Parry, Wales for Africa
Health Links Conference, Cardiff, June 2007

• Aneuryn Bevan 1958 Many people have died and
  many have suffered, not because the knowledge was
  not there, but because they did not have access
  to it.
• To all the suffering that attends illness
  there was always added the bitterness that, if
  the poor could have had access to the knowledge
  available, they might have been saved or at least
  might have been helped

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Wales for Africa Health Links Conference
2008 Increasing the impact of Health
Links 10.00 16.30, Friday June 27th 2008
Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
How can Links work together and with other
organisations to increase their impact? The
conference will be opened by Rt Hon Rhodri
Morgan AM, First Minister for Wales REGISTRATION
IS FREE For a programme and to book your place
contact Anna Morgan Tel [phone], email
anna.morgan_at_wch.wales.nhs.uk