Free online resources on Coronavirus (COVID-19) – page updated 4 January 2021
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UK advice and guidance
UK legislation: Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
- Asthma UK
- British Dental Association (BDA)
- British Geriatrics Society
- British Heart Foundation
- British Institute of Radiology
- British Lung Foundation
- British Medical Association (BMA)
- British Society of Gastroenterology
- British Thoracic Society
- British Veterinary Association
- Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- DEFRA advice for people with companion animals or livestock
- Department of Health & Social Care on gov.uk
- Diabetes UK
- Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive Care Society, Association of Anaesthetists & Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Full Fact
- General Medical Council (GMC)
- GMB Coronavirus Hub
- Gov.uk
- Health & Care Professions Council
- Health Education England (HEE)
- HEE Catalogue of resources from professional bodies & Royal Colleges – regularly updated by the HEE Knowledge Management Team
- Literature Search Bank
- Resources for the Public
- Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
- Healthcare Infection Society
- HSE Health & Safety Executive
- Independent Healthcare Providers Network – includes many useful links
- Infection Prevention Society
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- King’s Fund
- MHRA
- nhs.uk
- NHS 111 online symptom checker
- NHS Confederation
- NHS England and NHS Improvement
- NHS Providers
- NHS Shared Business Services
- NICE
- Northern Ireland
- Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Paediatric Intensive Care Society
- Public Health England
- Coronavirus guidance
- COVID-19 dashboard (desktop version) (mobile version) – read more and get .csv files
- Royal College of Emergency Medicine
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Royal College of Midwives
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG)
- Royal College of Occupational Therapists
- Royal College of Ophthalmologists
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Royal College of Pathologists
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Royal College of Radiologists
- Royal College of Surgeons
- Scotland
- Signhealth updates in British Sign Language
- SPACES (Sharing Patient Assessments Cuts Exposure for Staff) – standarised approach to the management of ward care based on the principles of “Maximum patient contact – minimum staff exposure”.
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines
- UNISON
- Unite the Union
- Wales
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International advice and guidance
Australia
Canada
Republic of Ireland
USA
- American Academy of Ophthalmology
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Physicians
- American College of Surgeons
- Centers for Disease Control
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Johns Hopkins University
- National Institutes for Health
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Free full text resources from publishers
Annals of Internal Medicine
BMJ and BMJ Best Practice EBSCO Resource Centre and Portal MA Healthcare (incl. British Journal of Nursing) medRxiv Preprint Server – please note these are PREPRINTS and not all have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication |
Mendeley Gender and COVID-19
New England Journal of Medicine ResearchGate COVID-19 Community Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) epidemiology collection Wolters Kluwer (including free content from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Ovid and UpToDate) |
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Clinical Trials
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E-Learning
- BMJ free e-learning (free registration may be required)
- e-Learning for Healthcare Covid-19 resources – these are free to view, but you’ll need to log in if you want to record them against your own profile
- Focus Games Coronavirus online game
- Health Education England e-learning resources
- Imperial College London Science Matters: Let’s Talk About COVID-19
- NHS Education for Scotland / Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network free PDFs
- RCNi free e-learning (free registration may be required)
- Royal Society of Medicine educational resources (free registration may be required)