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Health Links - long term inter-institutional partnerships - are a valuable and proven means to strengthen the skills of health workers and build institutional capacity in the poorer countries of the world. THET already registers 116 Health Links on our database: we want that number to be 200 in five years' time.
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Health Links build human and resource capacity in direct response to locally-identified needs through tailored programmes of training and continuing professional development for all level of health worker, drawing on the skills and expertise of UK health professionals. Health Links bolster core human and capital resources within existing health services, so that they are an effective, sustainable and durable approach to improving healthcare for the poorest patients. Participation in Health Links also offers rich scope for personal and professional development for UK volunteers including increased motivation, improved resourcefulness and greater appreciation of the NHS, the advantages of which are transmitted to the home institution and by extension to the patients under their care. THET is the primary UK organisation involved in fostering and supporting Health Links. We help to promote the benefits of Health Links both in this country and overseas, we broker Health Links partnerships, we provide tailored information and good practice resources to support Health Links at every step of their development and we create many opportunities for shared learning. We want to be able to expand these activities so that more institutions both in the UK and in developing countries can enjoy the enormous wealth of benefits that can be drawn from forming a Health Link. We calculate the costs of scaling up this area of work to be £80,000.