Charitable Activities

In its position as a charity, Education for Health is uniquely placed to share its knowledge and expertise in ways which a conventional commercial educational provider cannot. We strike a careful balance between our commercial activities and our charitable activities, to ensure we create a healthy funding stream for our increasingly ambitious charitable work.

The core of our charitable activity is the free sharing of our most valuable resource: our health education.  This free provision is undertaken by working with other charities, by promoting the importance of education and by developing our own initiatives such as Better Breathing Bangladesh which aims to improve the care of patients with asthma and COPD through advanced education of healthcare professionals and the setting up of community respiratory clinics.

So, as a charity, our mission is to:

• Advocate the importance of evidence-based practice and to promote the role of education as a lever for health service and patient health improvement
• Teach others to educate health professionals in the best ways of educating patients in how to manage their long term conditions in some of the world's poorest countries
• Work in partnership with other charities and professional associations; contributing our knowledge and experience; helping to meet or overcome specific health improvement related challenges.

The quality of our health education resources and activity means that we are one of the most effective health education charities in the world:

• Published research¹ proves that training with us increases the effectiveness of health professionals
• We are the only health professional education organisation to offer such measurable proof
• Thousands of multi-disciplinary health professionals from across the world choose to study with us every year
• Over 200 health service providers partner with us on a long-term basis
• We have nearly 25 years' experience in developing and delivering interactive, participatory learning across several continents
• There is an unrivalled breadth and depth to our specialist respiratory and cardiovascular portfolio.

Reference: 

1. Sheikh A, Khan-Wasti S, Price D, Smeeth L, Fletcher M, Walker S - Standardized training for healthcare professionals and its impact on patients with perennial rhinitis: a multi-centre randomized controlled trial.  Clin Exp Allergy 2007; 37(1):90-99