Resilience

Palmyra

Sustaining primary care in crisis

General practice in the UK is on the brink of collapse but little is being done to support GPs and their primary care teams who are struggling for its survival. ‘Resilience’ means the ‘ability to bounce back from adversity’, but what is resilience in the primary care context? Resilience in primary care has multiple layers (Figure 1); interventions at individual, team, locality, and whole-system level will be needed to build a sustainable primary care system for the future. This web page aims to gather information and evidence to support that change.

Figure 1: The three layers of resilience

Research

Influences on GP coping and resilience: a qualitative study in primary care
Anna Cheshire, Damien Ridge, John Hughes, David Peters, Maria Panagioti, Chantal Simon and George Lewith

GP views on strategies to cope with increasing workload: a qualitative interview study
Rebecca FR Fisher, Caroline HD Croxson, Helen F Ashdown, FD Richard Hobbs

GPs’ perceptions of workload in England: a qualitative interview study
Caroline HD Croxson, Helen F Ashdown, FD Richard Hobbs

Resilience of primary healthcare professionals: a systematic review
Helen D Robertson, Alison M Elliott, Christopher Burton, Lisa Iversen, Peter Murchie, Terry Porteous, Catriona Matheson

Resilience of primary healthcare professionals working in challenging environments: a focus group study
Catriona Matheson, Helen D Robertson, Alison M Elliott, Lisa Iversen, Peter Murchie

Editorials

Enhancing compassion in general practice: it’s not all about the doctor
Antonio T Fernando III, Bruce Arroll and Nathan S Consedine

Who cares for the clinicians? The mental health crisis in the GP workforce
Johanna Spiers, Marta Buszewicz, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Clare Gerada, David Kessler, Nick Leggett, Chris Manning, Anna Taylor, Gail Thornton and Ruth Riley

Damaged doctors: it’s time for a binding covenant of care between the NHS and its doctors
Dominic Patterson