Telemedicine

The charity facilitates a low cost telemedicine service linking doctors at hospitals in the developing world with leading medical and surgical consultants who generously give free advice.

Local doctors can send clinical photos, a patient’s history and any other relevant material (such as X-rays) to the Trust. A secure web-based messaging system is used, see below. This allows referring practitioners from 235 hospitals access to a panel of 514 consultants from 68 countries specialising in a wide range of disciplines.

The median length of time between receipt of original message and first reply by a specialist consultant is currently 1.8 days.