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<p>There are no plans to include nurses, midwives, other NHS practitioners or professionals
treating National Health Service patients in the roll out of the Practitioner Health
Programme, which is a free, confidential service for doctors and dentists who have
mental health and/or addiction concerns, or physical health issues that may be affecting
their mental health or ability to work. More information on the announcement can be
found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/2018/10/nhs-to-prioritise-doctors-mental-health/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/2018/10/nhs-to-prioritise-doctors-mental-health/</a></p><p>
</p><p>NHS Improvement’s health and wellbeing collaborative involves 73 trusts which
will identify and roll out 10 high impact actions as part of the NHS commitment to
reducing NHS staff sickness absence by 1% by 2020 and to the public services average
by 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Both the Framework and NHS Improvement health and wellbeing
collaborative embed ‘Thriving at Work’ principles which are aimed at improving workplace
mental health.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has an incentive programme running to 2019
which encourages trusts to invest in innovative new services to support their staff
health and wellbeing. To trigger the incentive payments, trusts have to demonstrate
a 5% improvement or 75% positive response to two of three NHS Staff Survey questions
on health and wellbeing.</p>
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