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<p>Employers across the National Health Service are responsible for the health and
wellbeing of all their staff. They will provide access to a range of services and
support to staff including doctors who feel they are experiencing stress.</p><p> </p><p>The
Department continues to commission NHS Employers to provide advice, guidance and good
practice to the NHS on improving staff physical and mental health and wellbeing. This
includes an emotional wellbeing toolkit enabling staff to check their own emotional
wellbeing and encourage discussion with colleagues. NHS Employers is also working
with NHS England who are investing £5 million in a new NHS staff physical and mental
health and wellbeing initiative, with the support of Public Health England.</p><p>
</p><p>There are particular additional issues for junior doctors relating to the need
for them to move between different hospitals in the course of their training. Health
Education England, which is responsible for doctor training arrangements has a programme
of work to address these issues. This includes looking at reducing the number of training
rotations to help balance doctors’ work and other responsibilities such as family
and caring commitments, giving doctors ten weeks’ notice of new placements and reviewing
the process for the annual review of competence progression to reduce unnecessary
bureaucracy.</p>
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