NHS Staff Wellbeing Support
The NHS provides a variety of online support to all staff members. You can access this here.
Professional Support and Wellness Service
The KSS Professional Support and Wellbeing Service (PSWS) is a bespoke and confidential service dedicated to helping General Practice and Foundation postgraduate doctors in training across the Kent, Surrey and Sussex region to fulfil their career potential. You can find out more on their dedicated website here. KSS Public Health doctors should access the Thames Valley PSWS. Doctors in other postgraduate specialist training programmes should contact the London PSU for support.
Every Mind Matters
Every Mind Matters is an NHS scheme which gives you simple and practical advice to get a healthier mind and get more out of life. From how to deal with stress and anxiety, to boosting our mood or sleeping better, it contains tips and advice for improving your health. It has been created by Public Health England and is endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners.
It only takes a minute to get started with our short free quiz to create Your Mind Plan with personalised tips and advice.
NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission
The NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission has set out to discover and review evidence of good practice where the mental health and wellbeing of staff and learners in NHS organisations has been made an organisational priority. HEE recognises its central role in supporting the current and future workforce to deliver high quality, safe care and the Commission has examined successful interventions from around the country, to identify what has worked well and what could be adopted widely. HEE’s aim is to see an NHS where staff and learners are happy and feel fulfilled in their work, where they look forward to going to work and are proud of the care they provide to their patients. There is good evidence that happy staff are more compassionate and provide safer care.
To find out more about the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission report and it’s recommendations which will be considered as part of arrangements to develop the Workforce Implementation Plan, please visit the national HEE website mental wellbeing webpage.
Workforce Stress and the Supportive Organisation
A new framework aimed at helping health and social care employers improve the mental wellbeing of their employees has been launched today by Health Education England (HEE).
The Workforce Stress and the Supportive Organisation – A framework for improvement through reflection, curiosity and change encourages employers to take a closer look at the systems they currently have in place for managing staff wellbeing, it challenges them to give greater consideration to the impact workforce stress has on staff and look at the role they can play in providing better support to staff who may need It.