TOGETHER WE INSPIRE

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed immeasurably the everyday lives of people throughout the world. Healthcare, education, research, business, the economy, recreation, home life, our own personal lives have had to change and adapt to new ways of working and living.

Whilst the focus has understandably been on meeting the challenge of COVID-19, people have continued to battle through the trials we were facing before the pandemic and continue to do so whilst we figure out what the new norm is. Problems such as inequalities, loneliness, the digital divide, social and other forms of injustice and hardships, an increasingly ageing population, a rising size of population and climate change remain. As people live longer and increasingly in more urban societies, the need to recognise and support those meeting these challenges and overcoming them becomes ever greater as we deliver social value beyond just shareholder profit and improve outcomes for all.

Out of this disaster, we see a sense of hope and imagination, a new sense of collective responsibility where nations, multinational companies and others gather together to support those stricken and reduce the suffering. It is great to see cooperation from around the world with communities and individual action learning. I would like to personally thank all the doctors, nurses, health care staff, those in the public sector such as law enforcement, local councils and private sector, voluntary organisations, governments, faith and nonfaith organisations and the individuals and groups who continue to battle through each day to support those in need, risking their own lives to help others selflessly.

We have only one planet and there is only one plan that we all need to rally behind and support.

I am a General Practitioner (Family Medicine physician) based in Hyde, UK and I am immensely proud of the work our teams are doing to support the wider work along with our Partners and friends. Please share what you are doing because these individual actions are a source of hope and can sustain us as we imagine and deliver a future and be the difference to enthuse others.

Thank you for all you do because Together, We Inspire.

DR AMIR HANNAN

Chairman of WHIS