{"id":1268,"date":"2024-09-25T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/practitioner-health-needed-more-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:34:54","slug":"practitioner-health-needed-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/practitioner-health-needed-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Practitioner Health &#8216;needed more than ever&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chair of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has welcomed an announcement that the specialist mental health service for doctors will continue for a further 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Helen Fernandes said it was \u2018really good news\u2019 that NHS Practitioner Health had secured funding until March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said: \u201cThis is really good news and most welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe work of NHS Practitioner Health is greatly needed at a time when the medical profession is on its knees and healthcare professionals are under huge pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe service is so important in supporting doctors while we support our patients. It\u2019s needed more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Helen-Fernandes-pic-bw.jpg\" alt=\"Head and shoulders image of DAUK chair Ms Helen Fernandes\" class=\"wp-image-6669\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DAUK chair Ms Helen Fernandes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK broke the news in April that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/news\/2024\/04\/12\/practitioner-health-funding-to-be-pulled-for-hospital-doctors\/\">Practitioner Health had been due to have its funding cut<\/a>&nbsp;while a review into the service was carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It led to a social media storm and widespread criticism before NHS England announced the service would be extended by 12 months while a wider review was carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Announcing that funding was in place until March 2026, Lucy Warner, NHS Practitioner Health chief executive, said: \u201cEarlier this year we were hugely grateful to those individuals and stakeholders who spoke out in support for the service, highlighting the impact of NHS Practitioner Health on their lives and those of friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a result, we saw agreement from NHS England to fund the service for a further 12 months to March 2025, while they carried out a review into staff mental health support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver the last six months we have been engaging with our commissioners and inputting into the review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have now been reassured that our funding is secure for a further 12 months through to March 2026, to enable time for the review to be completed and for a clearer picture to emerge on long term support for all staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe really believe we have been able to demonstrate the value and impact of the service and hope that by the end of this review NHS England will have identified a long term future for NHS Practitioner Health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Support the work of DAUK by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signing up as a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has welcomed an announcement that the specialist mental health service for doctors will continue for a further&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59,58],"tags":[38,644,657,42],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-ms-helen-fernandes","tag-practitioner-health","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}