Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasises the need to rethink and restructure the culture of healthcare organisations if we are to ensure the long-term well-being and mental health of healthcare provider organisations and their staff. In this paper, we recognise the high levels of stress and distress among s...
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic emphasises the need to rethink and restructure the culture of healthcare organisations if we are to ensure the long-term well-being and mental health of healthcare provider organisations and their staff. In this paper, we recognise the high levels of stress and distress among staff of healthcare services before the COVID-19 pandemic began. We identify lessons for care of healthcare staff and illustrate the paths by which support mobilises and later deteriorates. Although this paper focuses on NHS staff in the UK, we contend that similar effects are likely in most healthcare systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a3641c299de49acaf02dfdd3f34459e2023-03-09T12:29:14ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych Open2056-47242021-09-01710.1192/bjo.2021.981Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19Esther Murray0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3274-6443Kenneth R. Kaufman1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7924-4902Richard Williams2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1230-0222Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UKRutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, USA; and Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UKWelsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of South Wales, UK; Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK; and Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UKThe COVID-19 pandemic emphasises the need to rethink and restructure the culture of healthcare organisations if we are to ensure the long-term well-being and mental health of healthcare provider organisations and their staff. In this paper, we recognise the high levels of stress and distress among staff of healthcare services before the COVID-19 pandemic began. We identify lessons for care of healthcare staff and illustrate the paths by which support mobilises and later deteriorates. Although this paper focuses on NHS staff in the UK, we contend that similar effects are likely in most healthcare systems.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472421009819/type/journal_articleCOVID-19well-beingpsychosocial caremental healthcareprimary stressorssecondary stressorsmoral injury |
| spellingShingle | Esther Murray Kenneth R. Kaufman Richard Williams Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19 BJPsych Open COVID-19 well-being psychosocial care mental healthcare primary stressors secondary stressors moral injury |
| title | Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19 |
| title_full | Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19 |
| title_short | Let us do better: learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after COVID-19 |
| title_sort | let us do better learning lessons for recovery of healthcare professionals during and after covid 19 |
| topic | COVID-19 well-being psychosocial care mental healthcare primary stressors secondary stressors moral injury |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472421009819/type/journal_article |
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