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Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
The Practitioner-Health-Programme (PHP) is a confidential service for doctors and dentists with mental health or addiction problems. Since 2008 it has seen nearly 1,600 practitioner-patients. The number of referrals has increased from three to 17 per week in recent years, and the average age of those attending the service has fallen, with the peak age now only 29 years old.
Clinicians at PHP have heard about doctors who are bullied and those who do the bullying: those being complained about and the complainant: the junior doctor whistleblowing about lack of supervision and the senior, drowning in work, unable to find the time to teach. Unbeknown to each other, entire hospital departments pass through PHP, complaining about each other and the lack of support from their managers, clinicians or their directors.
Sadly, the experiences of these practitioners chime with those who have been speaking at a series of free listening events held over the last few months by the Founders Network, for NHS staff.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/03/nhs-staff-in-pain-work-stress
Clinicians at PHP have heard about doctors who are bullied and those who do the bullying: those being complained about and the complainant: the junior doctor whistleblowing about lack of supervision and the senior, drowning in work, unable to find the time to teach. Unbeknown to each other, entire hospital departments pass through PHP, complaining about each other and the lack of support from their managers, clinicians or their directors.
Sadly, the experiences of these practitioners chime with those who have been speaking at a series of free listening events held over the last few months by the Founders Network, for NHS staff.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/03/nhs-staff-in-pain-work-stress