Abstract: The government, the NHS, and education bodies must provide better support for trainee doctors to deal with the psychological effects of the covid-19 pandemic, the BMA has said. Speaking at the BMA’s junior doctor conference on 8 May, Sarah Hallett, chair of the association’s Junior Doctors Committee, warned that staff wellbeing must be taken more seriously. A BMA survey in April found that more than 40% of junior doctors (295 of 721) said they were experiencing depression, anxiety, stress, or burnout that had been worsened by the pandemic, ...
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