Third of UK doctors report burnout and compassion fatigue

[Northerner]

Almost a third of UK doctors may be suffering from burnout, stress and “compassion fatigue”, according to a survey that has raised concern about excessive workloads in the NHS.

A&E doctors and GPs are the most likely to feel burnt out. They have the highest levels of exhaustion and stress, the survey, published in the BMJ Open journal, found.

The findings of the biggest published survey of its kind underline the emotional impact on many doctors of working in an NHS that is under the most intense pressure in its 71-year history.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...doctors-report-burnout-and-compassion-fatigue

 

[mikeyB]

There are around 150,000 doctors working in the NHS. 1651 of these responded to the survey, and they were self selected - they were the doctors who responded to the survey.

So the truth is less than 1% feel burnt out and passion fatigue, using the same figures, but that’s not much of a story, is it?