A LEOMINSTER-based organisation is delivering crucial health care and training to medical workers in remote and hostile environments in the Middle East.

The Rural Media Company has been working with Workplace Wellbeing, a specialist occupational health and welfare service, to create short films which will provide much needed medical and occupational therapy training for health workers in Kurdistan.

Using volunteers to act as ‘patients’, Rural Media created a pop-up clinic in its new studios in central Hereford.

Jane Stevenson, founder of Workplace Wellbeing, said: "We deliver training in Kurdistan and Iraq but sometimes the situation just gets too dangerous and we have to pull our staff out of the area.

"But it’s vital that we up skill local health workers to a health care assistant level enabling them to care for communities for themselves. By creating these short films we can still deliver high quality training via webinars and other online services whilst ensuring the safety of our staff.

"Thankfully I’m a better health practitioner than an actor. I’ve done webinars before but filming is a different thing altogether, and Rural Media’s filmmakers Rosie Shewell and Flo Knowle did a brilliant job putting me at my ease and I’m delighted with the results."

The Rural Media Company CEO, Nic Millington, said the company works with a wide variety of local organisations and businesses.

"Jane’s remarkable company that works all over the world demonstrates just how rich and diverse Herefordshire’s economy is becoming," he said.

The health films will be available as part of a training resource for health workers which Jane and her team will be taking back out to use with health workers in Kurdistan in November.