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RCGP welcomes NHS GP health service
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has welcomed the launch of the NHS GP Health Service, a free and confidential service designed to improve access to mental health support for GPs and trainees who may be suffering from mental ill-health and addiction.
The service will enable GPs and trainees to access information about the services available, self-help tools, and clinical support.
NHS England said the new service ‘is an important part of our commitment to help retain a healthy and resilient workforce and in supporting GPs and GP trainees who wish to remain in or return to clinical practice after a period of ill health’.
Responding to the launch, Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the RCGP, said: “Being a GP can be an incredibly stressful job, so it’s no wonder that the intense resource and workforce pressures currently facing our profession are increasingly taking their toll on the mental health and wellbeing of family doctors.
“GPs and GP trainees have been crying out for a service like this new GP NHS Health Service for some time, so this is an incredibly welcome development – and it was a key pledge in NHS England’s GP Forward View – as we strive to ensure we have a healthy workforce who can deliver the best possible, safe patient care to over 1.3 million patients everyday.”
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