Compassion fatigue webinar

The webinar will be held on Wednesday 25 June from 7.30pm to 8.30pm and is free to DAUK members, and costs £5 for non-members. Click here to sign up to the webinar. It follows our free webinar this week on managing the emotional aftermath of adverse medical conditions, which was hosted by Dr Claire Davies, a GP and accredited coach. Dr Davies works with doctors on managing stress, preventing burnout, and making their careers enjoyable again. Please support our work by contributing to our crowd funder or by becoming a member.

• Why they feel the way they do
• What we often get wrong in terms of supporting ourselves and others
• What really helps
• How to offer great and effective support as a colleague.

The webinar is free to DAUK members, and £6.13 to non-members. Book your place here. DAUK is run by volunteer doctors. Please support our work by contributing to our crowd funder or by becoming a member.

Free webinar

The webinar takes place on Tuesday 10 June from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. It will be held by Dr Claire Davies, a GP and accredited coach, who works with doctors on managing stress, preventing burnout, and making their careers enjoyable again. Dr Davies is the author of the book First Aid for Doctors with Burnout and a contributor to Pulse, Medscape and the BMJ. Her talk aims to help doctors understand:

• Why they feel the way they do
• What we often get wrong in terms of supporting ourselves and others
• What really helps
• How to offer great and effective support as a colleague.

It is free to DAUK members and £6.13 to non-members. Book your place here.

Compassion fatigue

The second webinar is on compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue, often referred to as the ‘cost of caring’, is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion resulting from prolonged exposure to the suffering of others. The webinar will be hosted by Jayne Ellis, founder and CEO of EF training, who has experienced compassion fatigue herself. She will talk about it and how to mitigate its effects. The webinar will be held on Wednesday 25 June from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. It is free to DAUK members, and costs £5 for non-members. Click here to sign up to the webinar. DAUK is run by volunteer doctors. Please support our work by contributing to our crowd funder or by becoming a member.

Register for this online webinar on Wednesday 24th March, 11.15-12.15

DAUK’s chair Dr Jenny Vaughan is an invited speaker at the Health Service Journal’s monthly webinar

“In a high-risk industry such as healthcare, small, accidental errors can usually have significant consequences – affecting the safety of both patients and staff. It’s no secret that a blame culture is prevalent across the sector due to years of focusing on individual failings rather than underlying systemic and organisational faults.

As NHS workers continue to go above and beyond to protect patients throughout the covid-19 crisis, leaders need to take steps to build an environment that demands fairness, openness and honesty; where staff feel confident and comfortable to speak up when things go wrong so that similar errors can be prevented, rather than fearing undue recrimination or reprisal for speaking out. 

How can leaders and managers invest personally and emotionally in the workplace culture to influence change and improve care during these extreme circumstances? 

What can you do to ensure you are working in the same reality as that of your teams? Understand the value of having leadership at all levels to drive change from the ground-up and remove barriers between ‘us and them.’”

Join this webinar to find out what support mechanisms you can put in place to create an empowering environment for staff to meet the unique challenges presented by covid-19.

The Doctors’ Association UK has teamed up with Doctors in Distress to launch a series of webinars supporting the mental wellbeing of ITU doctors and nurses during the pandemic.

Our first session was presented by expert in Space Medicine, Professor Kevin Fong, who is also a HEMS Consultant and a national advisor to NHS England on major incidents.

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Hosted by The Doctors’ Association Dr Alex Vallakalil, we introduce four speakers to talk about the issues faced by our overseas colleagues

Dr Jenny Vaughan joined the Harmed Patient Alliance to deliver a webinar on 17 December 2020 exploring the issue of second harm in healthcare.

Watch the webinar on Vimeo: