We’re in the Top 100 social enterprise list!

As a social enterprise we’re very proud to be included on 2021’s NatWest #SE100 Index listing the UK’s best in social enterprises. You can find the full list of organisations here. We are also a registered Community Interest Company (CIC). Find out more about how we work here.

Rethinking global healthworker education: the value of multi-directional learning

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.

Going live: launching the PCI Academy!

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 …

Strengthening virtual primary care across the Middle East: our new partnership with Altibbi

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 …

Post-Covid future for nurses: focus on leadership for long-term change

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 …

Managing Covid a year on: stigma, skills and solidarity

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 …

Our new partnership in Libya: strengthening the primary health system

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 …

Our 2020 Annual Report – out now!

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 …