Crisis Rescue Foundation (CRF), previously the ‘Covid Crisis Rescue Foundation’, is providing vital services to help in crisis situations across the UK and abroad - this work has been ongoing on a daily basis since Spring 2020.

Our initiatives have included:

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

ii) The CRF Pulse Oximeter Delivery 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. About 5000 probes have been delivered to patients across London since the service launched in May 2020;

iii) The Covid Crisis Rescue Volunteer Team- at the peak of the pandemic the team numbered about 90 volunteers distributing food donated by London eateries 5 days a week to NHS staff to 10 busy London hospitals;

iv) The Vaxi Taxi / Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups Project events at various centres in the hearts of communities , including at community, faith and asylum seeker centres, and homeless shelters, with the offer of transport to and from the pop up centres for those requiring this. The Project addresses inequalities of health by making health and wellbeing more accessible to all;

v) HELP INDIA NOW THINK TANK PROJECT - a coalition of UK and India based clinical and non-clinical experts established to support ongoing efforts in India to manage health needs, 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- the establishment of a group of UK and Uganda based clinicians and associated professionals working to support frontline clinicians with health needs, including in the midst of the COVID pandemic in Uganda, by fundraising for medical essentials and providing peer support as needed;

vii) On the 4th of April 2022 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 medical education to students in the Ukraine and others who have been displaced to locations worldwide. We have collaborated with medical school lecturers to structure the programme.

The CRF Medical School U.K. Elective Programme has recently opened up to medical students and qualified doctors located globally, including from Sudan, who are struggling to access medical education, peer and wellbeing support due to war and other local crises.

As we now have over 2000 students registered at our Crisis Rescue Foundation Medical School U.K. Elective Programme and these numbers are growing daily, the costs to keep the Medical School U.K. Elective Programme going have increased greatly too. Please help us to continue with our crucial work https://gofund.me/c5a0858b;

viii) On the 24th of April 2023, the Crisis Rescue Foundation established the CRF Sudan Crisis Support Group to support Sudanese clinicians during the current conflict by delivering bespoke clinical and well-being sessions to Sudanese clinicians through the Crisis Rescue Foundation Medical School.