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<p>The Department is helping National Health Service trusts in their responsibility
for offering junior doctors mental health support and pastoral care through the NHS
staff health and wellbeing framework and NHS Improvement’s NHS staff health and wellbeing
collaborative. Both incorporate the mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work –
a review of mental health and employers’ produced by Mind.</p><p> </p><p>The Workforce
Implementation Plan, announced in the NHS Long Term Plan, is prioritising recommendations
from Health Education England’s ‘NHS Staff and Learners Mental Wellbeing Commission’
report which should give junior doctors access to board level Well Being Guardians,
personal wellbeing supervisors and ‘safe spaces’ for reflection, learning and breaks
complementing work with the Care Quality Commission and NHS Improvement to ensure
junior doctors have high quality supportive supervision and are not asked to work
excessive hours. Doctors in training now report any pressure to work excessive hours
to the Guardian of Safe Working.</p>
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