Resources

Read the NHS & the Sustainable Development Goals booklet, and the digital cards.

Read Dr Lesley Crichton’s, the Global Citizenship Professional Adviser, blog about Global Citizenship  – why bother?

Individual health workers are at the forefront of the response to COVID-19 and under almost unprecedented strain. The pandemic is passing from one continent to the other, affecting all in turn. This document contains information and resources designed to support NHS Scotland Global Citizenship’s global health community.

The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) brings together a wide variety of high quality data, profiles and reports on the health of Scotland’s population.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent population health research centre at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems.

Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation which produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics.

Read the Decolonising Global Health page to see a collection of resources.

This guide provides advice and guidance for NHS Boards and staff about how to get involved in Global Citizenship.

The Duty of Care Toolkit, developed by THET, aims to ensure robust duty of care procedures for your own programme.

Guidance On Management Of Medical Devices And Equipment In Scotland Healthcare And Social Services Version 1 (NHS Scotland, 2024) provides guidance for the donation of suitable surplus equipment through NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Programme.

Making It Work – A toolkit for medical equipment donations to low-resource settings (THET, 2013).

Medical device donations: considerations for solicitation and provision provided by the World Health Organisation.

Medical Equipment Donations provides on safe donation on medical equipment to low-and-middle- income countries (LMICs) they need to deliver quality care. The findings of the review have informed the development of the 10 Step Guide poster and 10 Step guide checklist.

Comprehensive searchable database of reviews of interventions carried out to promote development (FCDO).

For information on how to begin identifying funding got support your project please visit our funding pages.

The International Forum for Volunteering in Development (Forum) has developed the Global Standard for Volunteering for Development (the Global Standard) to help organisations understand and deliver Responsible and Impactful Volunteering, and to encourage learning and continuous improvement in development projects involving volunteers.

Information on how to stay safe and healthy abroad provided by NHS Fit for Travel

Clinical travel health information for UK healthcare practitioners provided by NHS Travax

Advice on travel vaccination, NHS

TravelHealthPro is the website comprising the travel health resources of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)

HealthLink360 travel clinic is a registered charity which provides  risk assessments, country specific advice on recommended vaccinations, anti-malarials and particular health risks. They are a Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre

NHS Scotland Global Citizenship HR Guidance to Health Boards and NHS Staff (Scottish Government, 2019).

The fourth Scottish Government’s contribution to International Development report. It takes a holistic look at a wide cross-section of our international development activity and presents it within the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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The third Scottish Government’s contribution to International Development report. It takes a holistic look at a wide cross-section of international development activity, including a reflection on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

View full report here

The second annual report takes a holistic look at a wide cross-section of Scottish Government international development activity, and presents it within the context of the UN Global Goals.

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First ever Contribution to International Development Report takes a holistic look at a wide cross-section of Scottish Government international development activity, and presents it within the context of the UN Global Goals.

View full report here

The African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) is an African-led, regional non-profit research policy institute established in 2010 to help bridge the gaps between research, policy and practice in development efforts in Africa.

Medical Council of Malawi  – includes the registration process in Malawi and the patients charter.

Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KuHES) – Blantyre, Malawi

The Malawian Medical Journal

The Malawian Scottish Partnership – based in Lilongwe, Malawi.

The Scotland Malawi Partnership (SMP) is the national civil society network coordinating, supporting and representing the people-to-people links between Scotland and Malawi. The paper from the University of Edinburgh, Valuing the links between Scotland and Malawi provides useful further information.

The NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Framework sets out ten Principles which underpin the NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Programme and the direction for global citizenship in NHS Scotland.

These Principles detail “what good looks like” and support NHS staff and Health Boards to ensure the global health work they undertake with partners is ethical, sustainable and effective.

The Framework makes clear NHS Scotland’s ongoing commitment to global citizenship, for the benefit of patients, health workers and the health service both here in Scotland, and beyond.

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The NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Framework – Executive Summary

This document contains our Storybook, where you can read all about the stories of People, Partnership and Place.

Health partnerships are a model for improving health and health services based on ideas of co-development between people and institutions from different countries. Visit our Health Partnership page to find out more.

The Police Scotland International Development and Innovation Unit is based at Scottish Police College Tulliallan and is charged with identifying and developing mutually beneficial partnerships with law enforcement agencies both in the United Kingdom and overseas.

An open, editable wiki resource for individuals and organisations interested in improving policy coherence in Scotland. The wiki was created by Scotland’s International Development Alliance, with initial support from Oxfam Scotland, SCIAF, Christian Aid Scotland, SCVO and Tearfund Scotland.

Procurement tools, support and guidance for the Scottish public sector published by the Scottish Government

The Ethical Procurement for Health workbook contains practical guidance for organisations in health and social care to embed labour standards considerations into procurement and supplier management activities (Ethical Trading Initiative, 2017)

The Quality Improvement Zone (QI Zone) provides information and resources to support people with experience at all levels of quality improvement to develop their knowledge. (NHS Education for Scotland).

‘The Scottish Improvement Journey: a nationwide approach to improvement’ shares the story of the Scottish Improvement Journey encompassing 50 years of clinical audit and improvement programmes (Scottish Government, 2018)

Comprehensive searchable database of reviews of interventions carried out to promote development (FCDO).

Information on the Royal College of Nursing’s work to represent UK nursing in Europe and Internationally.

Information on the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Global Child Health Programmes and other global child health resources.

The Royal College of Surgeons Global Affairs Page.

The Global Surgery Foundation exists to build sustainable surgical capacity in communities suffering from a chronic shortage of care

International development: safeguarding policy (Scottish Government, 2018)

The Safeguarding Support Package, “Safer for All” has been developed by the Scottish International Development Alliance (SIDA) and designed specifically to provide information, tools, and resources and support needed to ensure that safeguarding practice meets the highest standards.

Visit the Scottish Government website for information on Scotland’s International development strategy, policies, funding and latest news.

The Scottish International Development Alliance provides support to people and organizations in Scotland involved in international development. The organization provide a range of resources including education and training as well as access to a very comprehensive funding database.

Students for Global Health are a student network and registered charity tackling global and local health inequalities through education, advocacy and community action

Students in Health Partnership Toolkit developed by THET

Sustainability Action is used to support and promote staff behaviour change activities that contribute to delivering sustainability across all parts of the NHS.

The NHS Scotland climate emergency and sustainability strategy: 2022-2026 document sets out plans for NHS Scotland to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and impact on the environment, adapt to climate change and to better contribute to the United Nation sustainable development goals. It has been developed by the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland Assure.

The Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere.

Read the NHS & the Sustainable Development Goals booklet, and the digital cards.

NHS Scotland – Health Facilities Scotland

Sustainable Development Unit – NHS England

The International Forum for Volunteering in Development (Forum) has developed the Global Standard for Volunteering for Development (the Global Standard) to help organisations understand and deliver responsible and impactful volunteering, and to encourage learning and continuous improvement in development projects involving volunteers. The Global Standard will benefit any organisations that respond to a community need by providing or supporting volunteers.

The Scottish Global Health Coordination Unit hosted an online webinar for our Community and other interested stakeholders.

NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Webinar on Environmental Sustainability

This online webinar was on environmental sustainability in the context of global health work and discussed the challenges of balancing planetary health considerations with the inevitable carbon footprint of an international health partnership. Dr Sarah Chibane presented her work on the Carbon footprint of travel for global health partnerships.