Archive - Globally Nursing

The Men's World Cup's Other League Table - Part 2

What the last two World Cup finals reveal about infant survival, unequal health systems and shrinking health aid

9 hrs ago • Marcus Wootton

The Men's World Cup's Other Winners Table

Every player reaches the tournament through a health system. Those systems have very different resources and outcomes.

Jul 18 • Marcus Wootton

Invited, refused, absent

Global health wants frontline nurses, just not at its conferences

Jul 10 • Marcus Wootton

I’ve Been Writing the Same Article for Twenty Years

I found the blog I wrote as a 25-year-old outreach nurse in Southern Sudan. What surprised me was how much of my current work was already there.

Jul 4 • Marcus Wootton

June 2026

The world’s next nursing shortage may not be where you think

The law of averages is hiding a big problem with our global community nursing workforce

Jun 26 • Marcus Wootton

What eleven specialists can do if they move around

Eleven paediatric neurologists. Fourteen million children. A mobile phone and a quarterly visit.

Jun 20 • Marcus Wootton

What I got wrong about virtual support in Ukraine

The website existed, the resources were useful, and the logic was not wrong. What we did not have was the trusted network that had made the same…

Jun 13 • Marcus Wootton

Climate health plans keep forgetting it is nurses who have to deliver them

Climate change is being written into health policy. It is also being written onto nursing workloads.

Jun 6 • Marcus Wootton

May 2026

The outbreak is never only the virus

Ebola and hantavirus are very different infections; they are also getting very different responses.

May 22 • Marcus Wootton

What happens when the nurse vacuum gets switched off, then on again?

International Nurses Day should remind us that nurse migration is a right. Dependence on nurse migration is a workforce failure.

May 16 • Marcus Wootton

The world map is wrong. Distorted maps lead to the wrong assumptions in Global nursing.

Picture the world map in your head. I’m willing to bet you are likely to be wrong.

May 8 • Marcus Wootton

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