What Ukraine Can Teach UK Emergency Services About Organisational Resilience
How do organisations continue to make effective decisions, protect their people and deliver critical care when pressure is sustained, resources are stretched and circumstances change by the hour? For the World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEM Fund), these questions are grounded in four years of frontline experience in Ukraine. On Thursday 17th September, the team will […]
From Ukraine to Cumbria: Frontline Lessons Shaping Prolonged Casualty Care Training
Knowledge gained during a humanitarian crisis should strengthen the people responding to that crisis while helping others prepare more effectively for the future. Since 2022, the World Extreme Medicine Fund has worked alongside medical professionals in Ukraine, delivering equipment, trauma training and operational support in environments where evacuation, infrastructure and access to definitive care can […]
The WEM Fund to Share Lessons from Ukraine at The Emergency Services Show 2026
Operational resilience isn’t built during a crisis. It’s built long before one arrives. For the past four years, the World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) has worked alongside healthcare professionals, emergency responders, humanitarian organisations and international partners across Ukraine, delivering humanitarian aid, developing frontline medical capability and providing trauma training in some of the most challenging […]
Ten Anaesthetic Machines Transported from Devon to Ukraine to Support Critical Care Treatment
A convoy led by the World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) has successfully delivered ten anaesthetic machines from Devon, UK to Kropyvnytski Hospital in Ukraine, helping support intensive care treatment for patients suffering severe infection and trauma-related complications caused by war injuries. The machines, donated by the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as part […]
From Ukraine to NATO: How Prolonged Casualty Care Is Reshaping Operational Medicine
In June 2026, members of the World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) team will join military medical personnel, operational planners, and multinational healthcare units in Estonia for NATO Exercise VIGOUROUS WARRIOR 2026. Held between 10th to 19th June, Vigorous Warrior is NATO’s largest multinational military medical exercise, bringing together allied and partner nations to test medical […]
WEMF surgical training in Ukraine receives formal accreditation, strengthening frontline capability
The World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) has received formal accreditation for its Maxillofacial (Max Fax) Surgical Course delivered in Ukraine. This milestone marks a significant step forward in ensuring that high-quality, field-relevant surgical training is both recognised and standardised, even in some of the most complex and resource-limited environments. The accreditation has been awarded through […]
Practice to Perform: Inside WEMF’s Frontline Facial Trauma Workshops in Ukraine
Doing anything for the first time, especially a clinically invasive emergency procedure, is hard. If you don’t do that procedure regularly, it doesn’t get much easier – muscle memory fades, confidence drops, and you need reliable resources to remind you what to do, step by step. So, how do we try to get around this […]
From Emergency Response to Enduring Partnership: Collaborative Learning and the Evolution of Prolonged Casualty Care in Ukraine
By: Alex Gasper, Luca Alfatti MSc FRRHH FEWM, and Professor Mark Hannaford DSc (hc) FRRHH FEWMPrepared by the World Extreme Medicine Fund in collaboration with Ukrainian and international clinical partners The Dnipro River basin, a region with a long medical heritage stretching back to Scythian and Byzantine healers, has once again become a […]
Saving Limbs, Saving Lives: Expanding Access to External Fixation Worldwide
Some of the most powerful innovations in medicine aren’t about reinventing what we use, but rethinking who can access it.From a workshop in the UK to operating theatres in Ukraine and beyond, one small device is reshaping trauma care on a global scale. A Simple Frame That Changes Everything The external fixator is a humble […]
Taking Casualty Care Further: Introducing the Prolonged Field Care (PFC) / Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) Course
Location: Muncaster Castle, Cumbria, UKDates: 2nd – 6th February 2026 Find out more about the course by clicking here. For over three years, the World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) has been training medics in Ukraine, delivering trauma care in the most testing conditions imaginable. Now, for the very first time, WEMF is bringing that knowledge […]