The Pakistan Trauma Course
A dedicated blended learning programme for doctors involved in caring for the trauma patient. Log on to ENLIGHTENme to read the course manual chapters, answer the self-assessment questions and review…
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The Leeds Centre for Emergency Care & Global Health
CENTEC Global
Centre for Emergency Care & Global Health
Transforming emergency healthcare through innovative technologies.
Global partnership. Digital innovation. Research.
Excellence in emergency care, leadership and innovation
CENTEC Global draws on the strengths of the Departments of Emergency Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) and its international networks.
Guided by the values of The Leeds Way, we bring together clinicians, researchers, academics and technology partners. Our aim is to improve emergency care for the people of Leeds and, through our international partnerships, for patients worldwide.
What we do
Global Health. Innovation. Research.
Each area supports the others. Ideas tested in Leeds lead to research, and research informs the training we share with partners abroad.
CAILTEC
Innovation
Early-stage VR for rare, high-risk HALO procedures. AI scribes that reduce the time clinicians spend on notes. AI support for detecting fractures, currently being evaluated.
L-EMeRG
Research
Leeds patients take part in national NIHR trials, including studies of head injury and childhood asthma.
cHALO · SACEM · ENLIGHTENme
Global Health
A network of learning hubs across South and South East Asia and Palestine, powered by our own blended-learning platform.
What’s new
Conferences, courses & news
Introducing the Virtual Leadership Academy
Leadership is a clinical skill. The Virtual Leadership Academy brings together sixty scenario-based modules across three career stages: leading yourself, leading teams and leading systems. Supporting clinicians throughout their careers…
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Coming soon: cHALO Certificate in Emergency & Acute Care
The forthcoming cHALO Certificate in Emergency & Acute Care is a two-year, 20-module blended programme for Junior Medical Officers and emergency medicine trainees. Online learning, local practice The programme combines…
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4th International cHALO Conference: Karachi, November 2026
The 4th International cHALO Conference will bring the emergency care network together at Aga Khan University in Karachi, with workshops on 2 November and the conference on 3–4 November 2026.…
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ENLIGHTENme
ENLIGHTENme started in Leeds in 2001 and has been rebuilt. It is a single place for emergency care learning. It is free to start, built for low-bandwidth settings and mapped to the RCEM curriculum so that your learning counts towards your portfolio.
Every module, one path
A
Learn
B
Test
C
Consolidate
D
Simulate
E
Apply
F
Reflect
Why it matters
Similar numbers of consultants. 26 times the population.
South Asia’s 1.8 billion people share roughly the same emergency consultant workforce as the UK’s 69 million. In recognition of the many NHS colleagues who began their careers there, cHALO exists as a philanthropic bridge. Through formal institutional partnerships, we co-develop tailored, blended learning initiatives engineered specifically for the demands of low-resource environments—investing knowledge and systems directly back into local frontline care.
Innovation in practice
Three innovation projects in Leeds
Our work includes an AI scribe, AI support for fracture detection and a virtual reality training environment.
AI scribe
AI drafts the clinical note for the clinician to check. This reduces documentation time and gives clinicians more time with patients.
AI radiology
We are evaluating AI support for fracture detection in adult and paediatric emergency care. The aim is to reduce missed diagnoses.
ViRsTiLE virtual ED
A virtual environment for practising rare, high-risk emergency procedures, being developed in collaboration with Dynamic.
Support CENTEC Global
Help us share better emergency care.
CENTEC Global runs on a not for profit basis. All funds raised go back into supporting education, innovation and research in Leeds, the UK and internationally.
We are grateful to all our partners for their continuing support.
Contact CENTEC Global
Let's talk.
Contact the team about learning, teaching, research, innovation or supporting our work.