Covidorg.com offers health professionals documentary resources against Covid-19, ready for download, free of charge, anywhere in the world. It pulls together the sum of relevant documents already published, or those that health entities in 28 countries have shared willingly and updated. Many contributors have already made their documents available, and you are warmly invited to share their practical knowledge with the rest of the world as well. You can learn more about Covidord.com in the document below, and can contact their team at contact@covidorg.com for any additional information.

This programme is to recognise the dedication and sacrifices of healthcare workers around the world and we would like to recognise as much hospitals and health service providers as possible. In line with this, it would be very helpful if you can share this information to your network of hospitals so they can submit an entry for recognition. There is no charge to submit an entry.

The WHO is building an Academy that will revolutionize lifelong learning in health by providing accredited and tailored learning to millions of users to achieve greater impact for millions of people worldwide. The WHO Academy will offer digital and in-person learning experiences via a state-of-the-art digital platform, with the latest approaches in adult learning, behavioral science and cutting-edge learning technologies, tools, and applications.

Many of the changes in healthcare delivery adopted during the COVID-19 crisis will result in more productive healthcare services – something much needed in any healthcare systems globally. To support members realise the benefits of these changes, we established the Beyond COVID-19 Task Force.

The Beyond COVID-19 Task Force will produce a set of recommendations to support hospitals adopt innovations and best practices realised during the COVID-19 crisis, which have beneficially transformed healthcare services, and so should be sustained in a post-pandemic scenario.

The NHS Confederation is focused on supporting members – including hospitals, community and mental health providers, ambulance trusts, primary care networks and clinical commissioning groups – to deliver for patients and local communities. We do this in four ways:

• Inform members about the changing health and care landscape in a concise and accessible way.
• Represent the views of members, giving a voice to their expert knowledge and concerns at the highest levels.
• Influence the development of policy relevant to members through gathering feedback and engaging with decision makers.
• Support members to share ideas, insights and best practice, and by providing a platform for leaders to network and come together.

The NHS employs around 1.5 million people across the UK, making it the fifth largest employer in the world.

Health has been a devolved matter since 1999, with all four parts of the UK – England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – entirely responsible for legislation and policy relating to health. As a result, while the NHS is based on common principles throughout the UK, the structure in each jurisdiction is distinctive. While health and social care is delivered within different legislative frameworks and structures, across the UK the NHS faces similar challenges.

Indirectly, though, ultimate responsibility for NHS funding could be said to reside with the UK parliament. As the NHS is financed mainly through taxation, it is the UK parliament which distributes funds to the Scottish parliament and the devolved assemblies, although how much of that is devoted to health is a matter for local determination.

As chief executive of the NHS Confederation, I lead an organisation which supports the United Kingdom’s most cherished institution: the National Health Service (NHS). We bring together and speak on behalf of organisations that plan, commission and provide NHS services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Through our networks in England and our operations in Wales and Northern Ireland, we represent the wide variety of organisations in the NHS and as such, are well placed to articulate the interests of the healthcare system.

In England, we also run NHS Employers, a support service for NHS organisations who together form the nation’s largest employer. In addition, we have a small international team which focuses on the NHS’s links with other health systems and which operates the NHS’s European Office in Brussels, which has been concerned with EU legislation and more recently on the health implications of the UK’s decision to leave the EU.