What has Covid-19 taught us about supporting workforce mental health and wellbeing?, KF

Since 2005 pandemic preparedness plans have highlighted the need to consider providing psychosocial support for health care workers. Despite this, several weeks into the Covid-19 UK outbreak there were significant gaps nationally in evidence, planning and implementation advice for what this provision should look like and who should be providing it. Hospital-based psychiatrists and psychologists were among the first to hear expressions of concern and need from colleagues facing sustained stress and loss. In our own liaison psychiatry service, that enquiry came from frontline intensivists on 10 March. We rapidly saw that support was needed.
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