{"id":1122,"date":"2023-01-16T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/being-forced-to-deliver-substandard-care-is-taking-its-toll-on-junior-doctors-mental-health-dauks-dr-matthew-lee-speaks-to-mirror\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:56:19","slug":"being-forced-to-deliver-substandard-care-is-taking-its-toll-on-junior-doctors-mental-health-dauks-dr-matthew-lee-speaks-to-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/being-forced-to-deliver-substandard-care-is-taking-its-toll-on-junior-doctors-mental-health-dauks-dr-matthew-lee-speaks-to-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Being forced to deliver substandard care is taking its toll on junior doctors&#8217; mental health: DAUK&#8217;s Dr Matthew Lee speaks to Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burnout in the face of constant pressure is reported by more than three-quarters of hospital doctors on the frontline, reports the Mirror.\n\nDAUK&#8217;s sustainability lead Dr Matthew Lee spoke about how the current NHS crisis is taking its toll on his and his colleagues&#8217; mental health.\n\n&#8220;Dr Matthew Lee, a junior doctor<b> <\/b>in North Wales who needed counselling after struggling with his mental health, told us: \u201cBeing present in an environment where people aren\u2019t receiving the care they deserve is really difficult and takes a huge emotional toll.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re in a place where treating patients in corridors and waiting rooms has been normalised \u2013 we\u2019re being forced to deliver a substandard level of care due to a decade of poor government planning.\u201d\n\nThe junior medic, who also acts as a representative for the Doctors Association UK (DAUK), said his colleagues regularly have panic attacks on shift.\n\nDr Lee, 26, added: \u201cSome of them are terrified of being on call because of the stress they\u2019re going to experience and knowing that they\u2019ll witness traumatic scenes and likely deaths.&#8221;\n\n\u201cColleagues with no former mental health issues are having panic attacks on shift. I don\u2019t know anyone who hasn\u2019t cried or been extremely stressed because of work.\u201d\n\nRead the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/nhs-doctors-mental-health-meltdowns-28956424\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnout in the face of constant pressure is reported by more than three-quarters of hospital doctors on the frontline, reports the Mirror. DAUK&#8217;s sustainability lead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}