What does it mean to ‘build capacity’ of healthcare workers globally? We know that clinical expertise must be matched with knowledge and appreciation of context – politics, policy, economy, culture. As resources are redirected to economic recovery from COVID-19, most obviously demonstrated in the recent dramatic cuts to UK development assistance, there is now an opportunity to radically rethink our approaches to learning and recalibrate current dynamics.
We are delighted to officially launch the PCI Academy with our inaugural online NCD course, in partnership with UNHCR. The PCI Academy is PCI’s learning hub for primary care practitioners working globally. It’s our ‘home’ for learning. The course being launched today – ‘Management of NCDs in primary care’ – consists of interactive self-paced e-learning … Read more …
We’re delighted to be partnering with Altibbi to provide learning for their telehealth practitioners across the Middle East and North Africa region. Altibbi is the leading digital health platform in the region. The platform currently facilitates around 10,000 consultations per day with carefully selected and trained doctors. Altibbi is now launching the Altibbi Academy, produced … Read more …
Read PCI’s CEO, Julia Beart’s, reflections on how PCI has pivoted to support healthcare workers remotely during the pandemic, in doing so focusing on our guiding star – quality primary healthcare for all – and developing refined strategic priorities for the coming years
Kidest Nadew and Enrique Castro-Sánchez, nurses and members of Primary Care International (PCI) Clinical Associate network, share their thoughts and experiences for International Nurses Day on what nurses globally need to thrive. COVID-19 has brought home the key role of frontline health workers and the importance of a strong and supported primary care team: and … Read more …
Last week we caught up with Dr Edilu Robert in Uganda after he obtained the certificate of completion from PCI’s COVID-19 e-learning course. A year after the first Ugandan presidential address on COVID-19, Robert shared feedback on the training module, as well as discussing the broader impact of the pandemic on the community where he … Read more …
We’re delighted to be working with GIZ on a new project to promote a strengthened primary health workforce in Libya. The years of conflict and instability in Libya have had severe implications on the country’s health system and health workforce. The World Health Organisation calls its primary care system ‘debilitated’ and there has been an … Read more …
In 2020 we supported healthcare workers with digital resources in 80 countries around the world, we worked directly with our partners in 10 countries and we produced 108 hours of digital interactive learning. Find out some of the stories behind these figures in our new Annual Report 2020: a year that shone a spotlight on … Read more …
Meet our new Board members, read our project updates + see who’s in our Top 5 2020 blogs! All this and more in our February newsletter.
The latest in our ‘Primary Care Perspectives’ series sees us ‘in conversation’ with PCI Project Managers and colleagues: discussing their experience of the strengthening and development of primary health workforce capacity since COVID-19. Are we seeing a long-term fundamental shift in how this will be done? Or will things be ‘back to normal’ in a year’s time?
