Globally Nursing

You can’t wash your hands in a sink that isn’t there.

Every day, thousands of nurses go to work fully aware of the importance of hand hygiene. Time and again, their places of work let them and the public…

Sep 4 • Marcus Wootton

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August 2026

Community Health Worker + AI = Nurse?

AI may be in the cloud, but its impact is being felt on planet healthcare

Aug 21 • Marcus Wootton

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The nursing shortage that isn't simply a numbers game

Health systems keep saying they need more nurses. Some are also failing to employ the nurses they have already trained

Aug 14 • Marcus Wootton

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July 2026

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

Jul 28 • Marcus Wootton

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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

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Invited, refused, absent

Global health wants frontline nurses, just not at its conferences

Jul 10 • Marcus Wootton

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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