The volume of patients, the complexity of illnesses, and the unrelenting nature of the covid pandemic are having a huge impact on morale among our junior doctors, many of whom…
DAUK's Dr Natalie Ashburner & Dr Richard Gilpin in Health Europa Quarterly discussing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the welfare of healthcare staff. April 2020, DAUK conducted a survey…
January 4th 2021 Visiting a north London hospital as some of the first patients received doses of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine, prime minister Boris Johnson said tougher restrictions were inevitable. 'If…
Batches of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine have started arriving at UK hospitals ahead of the jab's nationwide roll-out. Some 530,000 doses of the treatment will be available for roll-out across…
Dr Natalie Ashburner, Vice-Chair of DAUK and an NHS psychiatrist, spoke to Al Jazeera about the impact the Covid-19 pandemic is having on the mental health and wellbeing of NHS…
Medscape UK's latest online survey of more than 1000 doctors highlights how working through COVID-19 has impacted their mental health and personal lives. The number of doctors reporting burnout increased to 37%…
Dr Ashburner commented: "Prioritising the wellbeing of NHS staff must be at the forefront of the action plan to tackle the second wave of this pandemic."
