Record levels of NHS staff seek mental health help in crisis deemed ‘worse than pandemic’

Exclusive: 6,000 doctors and 5,000 ambulance staff have sought help in the past year

Record levels of NHS staff now seeking mental health services (PA Wire)

Record levels of NHS staff are seeking mental health help as clinicians warn the “crisis” facing workers is “worse than the pandemic”.

Hundreds of staff are being referred to the specialist mental health service, NHS Practitioner Health, with 842 workers referred in October 2022 – up from 534 in the same month the year before and 371 in 2020.

Around 40 per cent of the staff seeking the service are GPs and 50 per cent are hospital doctors.