Pastoral support

We have look at some resources for those who are having a very difficult and stressful time as a postgraduate doctor:

General Support:

• The BMA Doctors for Doctors: a confidential counselling service telephone line.  Call: 08459 200169
• Support for Doctors
• Doctor's Support Network

Addiction:

• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Cocaine Anonymous
• Gamblers Anonymous
• Narcotics Anonymous
• The British Doctors’ and Dentists’ Group: For drug and alcohol users: (http://www.bddg.org/page.php?id=1)
• Medical Council on Alcohol - A body of doctors and others with a professional interest in alcohol and alcoholism which aims to promote understanding of alcoholism, its treatment and prevention

Time taken off work

Dr Rosie Puplett an F2 at North Bristol NHS Trust has written an extremely useful guide for those that have practical and financial worries due to long absences of sick leave. The Word document can be downloaded here.

Financial worries:

• Citizen’s Advice Bureau

Help with depression:

• Samaritans
  Tel: 08457 90 90 90 (24 hours a day, 365 days per year)
  Textphone: 08457 90 91 92
• CALM - Campaign Against Living Miserably
  Free Tel: 0800 58 58 58 (Daily from 5.00pm to 3.00am)
• National Self-harm network
• The Seasonal Affective Disorder Association (SADA)
• Doctors’ support network: Self-help group for doctors with any form of mental health concern. They also have a confidential, anonymous peer support telephone line: http://www.dsn.org.uk/
• Practioner Health Programme

Also see our page for doctors with disabilities.

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