The UK medical mapping project collaboration arose from a concern that there was a lack of information available to alert anaesthetists to current global health partnerships and projects. Projects with the same aims of improving safe anaesthetic delivery by using educational resources and programmes, could be geographically close but not know of each other’s existence.

As overseas partnership work continues to grow it not only made sense, but seemed vital to increase the collaboration between projects, and we set out to develop a way to share knowledge between projects, as well as sharing experience. Hence a survey of Association of Anaesthetists membership was first undertaken in 2012 and the first version of the map created. UK-based doctors continue currently working on many different collaborative projects in the resource-poor environment and the mapping project has expanded as we've seen our collaborative projects expand across disciplines and to more countries. It now not only covers anaesthetic collaborative projects, but obstetric and gynaecology, trauma and acute pain amongst others, initiated in a number of countries.
The Global Anaesthesia Partnerships map indicates the location of the projects (red pins), and contains details of the project activities and personnel. The other pins indicate the location of respondents (green pins) and supporting hospitals (orange pins) that were not UK based.
It is best to use the Click here to view a larger map icon. You can zoom into a particular country or region by typing in the search box at the top left. If you click on a pin on the map, or on the list on the left hand side, you will see the associated details.