Posts in Mental Health
SOM Fact Sheet: Managing Stress, Burnout and Fatigue in Health and Social Care

This document aims to:

• Highlight the scale of mental health issues in the health and social care sectors

• Identify the occupational, organisational, and individual risk factors for poor mental wellbeing

• Raise awareness of the consequences of poor staff wellbeing for patient care, employers and the benefits for employers of taking action to provide additional support

• Highlight existing interventions and tools to aid recovery and inform a roadmap for change

• identify the barriers to accessing support among health and social care staff.

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Caring for Doctors, Caring for Patients

How to Transform UK Healthcare Environments to Support Doctors and Medical Students to Care for Patients

Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia

Patient safety depends on doctors’ wellbeing. The focus of this report is on identifying causes, consequences and solutions. The review aimed to take account of the experience of all doctors and medical students working and learning within the UK’s healthcare systems, in both primary and secondary care. The starting point is understanding the needs of doctors in the workplace.

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Step by Step Procedure of Occupational Medicine Specialist for Psycho-social Risk Assessment and Measures for Stress Reduction at Work

Due to growing importance of stress in the workplace and work-related stress as well as the role of occupational medicine specialist in its prevention, the Croatian Society of Occupational Medicine of Croatian Medical Association held the Conference, 'Step by step procedure (hodogram) and tools of occupational medicine specialist for psycho-social risk assessment and measures for risk reduction at work,' on 14 February 2015.

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Mental HealthJulie Ording