Our initiatives have included:

I) Provision of PPE and medical devices to frontline services and patients;

II) The Urgent Oximeter Response Service- a free, pan London 7 day a week service delivering oxygen saturation probes to patients' homes by a team of dedicated bikers and with the support of the Royal Free Hospital;

iii) the Covid Crisis Rescue Volunteer Team, at the peak of the pandemic numbering nearly 90 volunteers distributing food donated by London eateries 5 days a week to NHS staff at busy London hospitals;

IV) The Vaxi Taxi Project delivering health and wellbeing pop ups units across London, including at festivals, faith, community and asylum seeker centres, as well as homeless shelters, and transporting people without access to private transport to these pop ups, thereby making health and wellbeing infromation and signposting more accessible for high risk groups, and addressing inequalities of health;

V) HELP INDIA NOW THINK TANK PROJECT , a coalition of UK and India based clinical and non-clinical experts, to support ongoing efforts in India to manage the pandemic, including by means of 'COVID Clinical Conversations'- the development of clinical resources for professionals and the public, including to inform the establishment of pulse oximetry at home pathways, and to deliver wellbeing support, as well as to assist in the sourcing of medical equipment supplies;

VI) UGANDA CLINICAL SUPPORT project, a group of UK and Uganda based clinicians and associated professionals working to support frontline clinicians in the midst of the COVID pandemic in Uganda, by fundraising for medical essentials and providing peer support as needed.

VII) On 04/04/22 Crisis Rescue Foundation established the Crisis Rescue Foundation Medical School U.K. Elective Programme with the aim of taking the pressure off Ukraine Medical Schools' lecturers trying to deliver online lectures to students both in the Ukraine and those who've been displaced from the Ukraine to locations globally. Some lecturers have had to leave their bunkers to deliver lectures, and this work has taken colleagues away from the priorities of survival in the midst of a war situation.

More recently the CRF Medical School U.K. Elective Programme, which is the only international, free, online medical education and peer/wellbeing support institution of its kind has grown to include trainee and qualified doctors from across the globe, whose medical education has been disrupted due to war and other local crises. CRF has collaborated with overseas medical schools' lecturers, including in Ukraine and Sudan, to structure the Programme.

We currently have over 250 U.K. experienced medical lecturers who have signed up to help, most of whom are educators in U.K. teaching hospitals or primary care.

Over 2500 students located worldwide, including Ukraine and Sudan, have registered for the Programme. We have so far seen daily student lecture attendance of several hundreds, with over 21,000 overwhelmingly positive student feedback responses received to date.

In addition, we have also supported around 50 of our students who have been displaced to the U.K. in achieving clinical placements in this country, to help support their studies and the NHS.

We want to continue to grow the Programme and need more lecturers in all fields of medical school studies to achieve this. In addition, we are keen to create more clinical placement opportunities for refugee medics hoping to work in the NHS.

Please contact CRF if you can offer any support, including admin or IT help, or have any queries or comments,

We depend on donations to keep building on this crucial work and we will continue to provide these services for as long as we have the resources to do so.

CRISIS RESCUE FOUNDATION WEBSITE

CRF Ukraine Medical School UK Elective Programme Video Clip

TESTIMONIALS

Ukraine Medical School Professor

Dean of a UK medical school

UK hospital doctor and CRF Programme lecturer

Ukraine Medical student attending the CRF Programme lecture.

NHS GP, Central London

NHS GP, London

NHS JUNIOR DOCTOR, Ealing

NHS CARDIOLOGIST, South West London

NHS PRACTICE MANAGER, Central London

What we are using funds raised for:

Supporting NHS staff, and the most vulnerable and marginalised, who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, namely:

   i)    those suffering due to domestic abuse

   ii)   the homeless

   iii)  those with mental health conditions

   iv)  refugees

PAN LONDON OXYGEN SATURATION PROBE DELIVERY AND LOAN SERVICE 8 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK

We deliver oxygen saturation probes to patients' homes by biker at the request of clinicians in order to aid self-assessment and remote assessment of COVID. Thousands of probes have been delivered to patients across London to date.

THE VAXI TAXI PROJECT running across London since the beginning of 2021, with the aim of facilitating pop up vaccination units at various centres, including faith, community, homeless and asylum seeker centres, and transporting people without access to private transport to these pop up vaccination centres, thereby making vaccination against COVID-19 more accessible for the vulnerable and high risk groups, and addressing inequalities of health. The work of the CCRF Vaxi Taxi Project has been highlighted by the NHS, the Vaccines' Minister and at a 2021 Downing Street COVID briefing.

Running the CRISIS RESCUE FOUNDATION Ukraine Medical School UK Elective Programme to support Ukraine Medical students both in the Ukraine and displaced across the globe with their continued studies, and to provide Ukraine Medical Schools' lecturers with peer support from UK colleagues during the ongoing crisis.

CRF (previously CCRF) in the news & medical press

Royal College of GPs spotlight on the CRF Ukraine Medical School

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/doctor-launches-medical-programme-for-trainee-ukrainian-doctors/

EVENING STANDARD VAXI TAXI SCHEME

METRO VAXI TAXI REPORT

THE DAILY MAIL VAXI TAXIS

The Vaxi Taxi Project

First mobile vaccination unit in London

Daily Express Award

China Daily Report China Daily

British Medical Association: Above and Beyond schemes that save lives during COVID19

Pulse: This crisis offers the chance for a radical change of mindset 

Evening Standard: Bikers deliver life saving medical equipment to vulnerable London Covid19 patients around the clock 

ITV News: Bikers deliver lifesaving devices to Covid19 patients’ homes 

Dr. Sharon Raymond, GP

DIRECTOR, CRISIS RESCUE FOUNDATION (Previously the COVID CRISIS RESCUE FOUNDATION)

Inspirational Woman of the Year Award 2020

Finalist GP of the Year Award 2020.

Finalist Coronavirus Hero 2020 Amplifon Brave Britons Awards.

Thank you for your generosity!

Disclaimer: All items of personal protective equipment, oximeters and/or any other items, devices and services provided by Covid Crisis Rescue Foundation (UK) (“Supplied Items and services”) are supplied 'as is', to help NHS and other clinical staff. End users must ensure that the specifications pertaining to such Supplied Items and services are suitable for the purpose and environment in which they will be used. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Covid Crisis Rescue Foundation (UK) disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, statutory, or otherwise, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, and fitness for particular purpose.