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Improving access to safe surgical care is fundamental to the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"

We asked Daniel Berman. Daniel’s the Lead of the Global Health Team at Nesta, charged with taking the brilliant idea of a Surgical Equity Prize and bringing it to life. Scroll down to learn more about the process of prize development, why now’s the time for a surgery prize, and how the Challenges of Our […]

One thing we know here at Lifebox is that safe surgery means team work. Our small but mighty team is made up of colleagues from different backgrounds and specialities, all with a common goal to help make surgery safer worldwide. Introducing Dr Ed Fitzgerald: surgeon, health consultant and Lifebox honorary clinical advisor. We recently caught up […]

Lifebox is now receiving applications for the 2020 McCaskey Safe Surgery Fellowship Programme. The aim of the programme is to develop a cohort of Ethiopian healthcare providers with expertise in Academic Global Surgery and Anaesthesia, with a focus on Quality Improvement. The programme supports 8 Ethiopian Fellows from within the four main professions within the […]

New Lifebox publication in BJS on antibiotic use in low-resource setting surgery

He also single-handedly organised the first ever Lifebox workshop in India. And with his mantra of “Safe anaesthesia, Safe Surgery, Safe Patient” it’s hard to resist his enthusiasm and can-do attitude when it comes to all things surgery related. Here we chat to Surajit about his quest to improve the safety of anaesthesia in his […]

A dozen countries and hundreds of meetings later, I am more enthusiastic than ever about Lifebox’s work and the global movement in safe surgery and anesthesia that we are part of. As I reflect on the past year and kick off a regular blog feature for our website, I wanted to highlight five of the […]

Inspired by his time as a Gamesmaker at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, he came into office with an ambitious idea: raise enough money to send 600 pulse oximeters to hospitals in low-resource settings. Why 600? One for every Team GB olympic and paralympic athlete heading to the Rio Games in 2016. 600 pulse oximeters […]

The Nurse Anesthesia Cook Off Competition for Lifebox raising funds for safer anesthesia

The AA (Anesthesiologist Assistant) Chili Cook Off Competition for Lifebox raising funds for safer anesthesia