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This World Mental Health Day a new FREE, IMMEDIATE app has been launched for all healthcare workers by NHS Practitioner Health. Find it at https://t.co/iIiMWS22G4
A week on, and we’re still buzzing from the APNA conference
We’re so grateful to APNA for raising a wonderful £1,250 for Doctors in Distress, helping us continue our work to support the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare workers.
Thank you, APNA!
The campaign for healthcare workers in Northern Ireland to have life saving access to mental health support continues. The inequality is unacceptable. @SusannahBasile was hosted by @KarlBennett on @JustMentalPodcast to describe the campaign latest.
💙 David Cargill and colleagues at Norfolk and Suffolk ICB are launching the co-production phase of their service development for staff mental health. This will provide insight into how staff want to access services. Doctors in Distress looks forward to its learnings. 💙
🎅 Looking for a fun way to raise funds for Doctors in Distress?
Join a team of Doctors in Distress staff and volunteers for Santa in the City in London on 9th December 2026! 🎄✨
Run or walk 3k or 5k, the choice is yours!
👉 Sign up here:
https://t.co/DIMZpLZ9Gq
👏 Delighted to announce our Patron Dr. Adam Kay has been appointed to judge the All In the Mind Awards 2026 👏 Telling @ClaudiaHammond on @BBCRadio4 why mental health matters Adam described how healthcare workers deserve mental health support.
Just 2 weeks to go before our first session, Grief in Healthcare: recognising, responding and recovering from loss.
The next session is on the 13th October at 12:30pm.
👉 Find out more and book your place, free of charge:
https://t.co/j29tfKFi6z
Just 2 weeks to go before our first session, Grief in Healthcare: recognising, responding and recovering from loss on 13th October at 12:30pm - 1:30pm.
Hear from our facilitator, Martin, in this video
👉 Find out more and book your place, free of charge:
https://t.co/j29tfKFi6z
💙"We would like to share the money left over from our recent 30 year reunion, to support the good work that you do. Best wishes, Nottingham University Medical School year of 1996". 💙 Thank you from Doctors in Distress for your thoughtful and generous donation.
🌳 This year's events for National Suicide Memorial Day for health and care workers are drawing to a close. 73 trees to date have been planted at healthcare settings across the country. Thank you to all who have built this powerful movement.
🌳 The annual National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers happened last week. 🌳. Thank you to all attendees and particularly to those who have organised these meaningful events.
🌿 Keeping Well as a Doctor — now wherever you are at ICPH 2026. We’re at the International Conference on Physician Health next week! Come and see us at our virtual booth to talk about what it takes to build a healthy, fulfilling and sustainable career!
If you are struggling, please do not suffer in silence.
Our free, confidential online support groups are here for healthcare workers at every stage of their career. To find out more about all of these groups, and to register, click here: https://t.co/h5vst1AY7g
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🌳National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers🌳 In her new article for **https://t.co/7drTJuaw8w** Mary Jane Roberts, CEO of Doctors in Distress says doctors save lives daily, we should do more to save theirs https://t.co/wg8oGSMKXZ
Our Grief in Healthcare sessions create space to understand changes in professional identity
📅 Sessions:
Tuesday 13 October – 12:30pm
Wednesday 25 November – 6:30pm
👉 Find out more and book your place, free of charge:
https://t.co/j29tfKFi6z
HEALTHCARE COLLEAGUES PLEASE SHARE! Doctors in Distress' Support Groups are FREE, CONFIDENTIAL, UNJUDGEMENTAL and available for you. Search 'doctors in distress Eventbrite' on google. 🕯️World Suicide Prevention Day 🕯️
A productive and thought-provoking Awayday for the Board of Trustees of Doctors in Distress, held at the Royal Society of Medicine. Days like this are an important part of how we work: combining good governance with curiosity and a willingness to think differently.