Understanding Emotions - Dealing With Stress as a Healthcare Professional

The Burnout and Beyond Podcast will be taking a hiatus over the next coming months, and will return in autumn. In the meantime, make sure to leave us a review! Do you want us to cover any topics related to the world of burnout? Leave us a comment! NHS Practitioner Health is a mental health and addiction service for health and care professionals who are unable to access confidential treatment from local services. Register with us today. Stay Connected: Instagram: @nhs_prachealt...

Practitioner Health Medical Director Dr Zaid Al-Najjar is joined by doctor, educator, and award-winning writer Dr John Launer to discuss uncertainty in medicine and healthcare - an aspect of the profession that can cause increasing feelings of stress. Zaid and John cover uncertainty in providing care to patients, the importance of asking open questions, burnout and uncertainty, and ways to manage uncertainty, including reflective practice. Read Dr John Launer's works here: Reflective Pr...

Creating a safe space to decompress after a demanding shift is a great way to reduce and manage feelings of stress. Take 8 minutes out of your day to follow Practitioner Health Therapist Dr Lisa Tyrer's guided meditation! NHS Practitioner Health is a mental health and addiction service for health and care professionals who are unable to access confidential treatment from local services. Register with us today. Stay Connected: Instagram: @nhs_prachealth Threads: @nhs_prachealth...

April is home to Stress Awareness Month- an annual campaign that highlights the causes, effects, and management of stress. This year’s theme is ‘Be The Change’ – emphasising the power of making small changes to reduce, manage, and prevent feelings of stress. In this episode of Burnout and Beyond, Practitioner Health Clinicians Dr Lee David and Dr Richard Duggins discuss what thriving looks like for health and care professionals, how to move beyond survival to thriving, and tips to prevent and...

The 13th of March was World Sleep Day – an annual opportunity to highlight the importance of sleep health. Poor sleep is an issue that affects many health and care professionals – in the last 12 months, two in three patients registering with Practitioner Health had trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleeping too much. In this episode of Burnout and Beyond, Practitioner Health clinicians Dr Lee David and Dr Richard Duggins discuss underlying causes of poor sleep, ways to improve your s...