Why PRIME?

Globally countless millions of people are without adequate healthcare and often the doctors and nurses training in those countries have given up on the idealism that made them train and take up posts in rural areas. With no ongoing training, poor resources and a sense of isolation, many have given up. Many come to the West for training and never go home.

In developed countries, there is a sense of depersonalisation of healthcare with tick-box systems and the prioritising of targets before compassion. So many people cry out for doctors and nurses who truly care for them.

PRIME is working in a wide variety of countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America and Oceania to improve healthcare education in order to help medical professionals around the world regain the compassion and care that so many of their patients need.

Our programmes can have a remarkable effect on healthcare professionals attending PRIME courses and, we hope, on the treatment they provide to the 100,000 people they will each potentially treat in the course of their careers.