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Resilience

Sustaining primary care in crisis

‘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: 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.

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This page features:

– Research
– BJGP Open articles
– Debate & Analysis
– Editorials
– Life & Times
– Related links

 

Research

*Latest research* – Job stress among GPs: associations with practice organisation in 11 high-income countries
Christine Cohidon, Pascal Wild and Nicolas Senn

Influence of patient multimorbidity on GP burnout: a survey and register-based study in Danish general practice
Fischer Pedersen A et al.

Association of GP wellbeing and burnout with patient safety in UK primary care
Louise H Hall et al.

General practice in UK newspapers: an empirical analysis of over 400 articles
Eleanor Barry and Trish Greenhalgh

Professional resilience in GPs working in areas of socioeconomic deprivation
Eleanor Eley, Ben Jackson, Chris Burton and Elizabeth Walton

GPs’ views of health policy changes: a qualitative ‘netnography’ study of UK general practice online magazine commentary
Rebecca Elvey, Jennifer Voorhees, Simon Bailey, et al. 

Barriers, facilitators, and survival strategies for GPs seeking treatment for distress: a qualitative study
Johanna Spiers, Marta Buszewicz, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, et al.

GPs’ perceptions of resilience training: a qualitative study
Anna Cheshire, John Hughes, George Lewith, et al.

GPs’ mental wellbeing and psychological resources: a cross-sectional survey
Marylou Anna Murray, Chris Cardwell and Michael Donnelly

Influences on GP coping and resilience: a qualitative study in primary care
Anna Cheshire, Damien Ridge, John Hughes, et al.

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

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, et al.

Resilience of primary healthcare professionals working in challenging environments: a focus group study (see Letter response below)
Catriona Matheson, Helen D Robertson, Alison M Elliott, et al.


From BJGP Open

BJGP Open is the BJGP's open access international journal of primary care

*Latest research* – Burnout, resilience, and perception of mindfulness programmes among GP trainees: a mixed-methods study
Petra Hanson, et al.

Assessing the mental wellbeing of next generation general practitioners: a cross-sectional survey
Fanny Lindemann, et al.

Effects of mindfulness training on perceived stress, self-compassion, and self-reflection of primary care physicians
Herman van Wietmarschen, Bram Tjaden, Marja van Vliet, et al.


 

Debate & Analysis

*Latest analysis* – Exploring ‘work–life balance’ at appraisal and how this links with organisational support
Jeremy Ferguson, Samantha Scallan, Johnny Lyons-Maris and Kerry Ball

Memory matters: how recall can build resilience
Alastair Dobbin and Sheila Ross

Compassion and the science of kindness: Harvard Davis Lecture 2015
Nigel Mathers

Bowlby, Balint, and the doctor–patient relationship: towards a theory of human relationships in medical practice
Jeremy Holmes and Andrew Elder

Resilience: what is it, why do we need it, and can it help us?
Mark Lown, George Lewith, Chantal Simon, David Peters

Three layers of resilience
The three layers of resilience


Editorials

Physical activity in practice: why and how to get GPs moving
Ian Brockhurst, Jean Wong, Helen Garr and Mark E Batt

Stressed GPs: a call for action
Sanju George and Clare Gerada

The resilient general practice: working as a pack
Nick Bradley

Lifting the dead hand on general practice
John Sanfey and Sanjiv Ahluwalia

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, et al.

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

Tired GP


Life & Times

*Latest Life & Times* – Looking after you too
Katie Barnett

Jumping in at the Deep End: supporting young GPs working in deprivation
Rachel Steen, Elizabeth Walton and Dominic Patterson

Breaking & Mending: A Junior Doctor’s Stories of Compassion & Burnout: Care for the Carers
Fiona Baskett

Books: The Art of General Practice: Soft Skills to Survive and Thrive: Social Skills and Fruitful Consultations
Gervase Vernon

Yonder: Burnout leave, asthma, Option Grids, and medicolegal risks
Ahmed Rashid

Mindful maps: a reading group for GPs and psychiatrists
Jane H Roberts

If You Want Good Personal Healthcare — See a Vet. Industrialised Humanity: Why and How We Should Care for One Another?
William House

Now is the time to work on your bucket list
Richard Armitage

Viewpoint: Resilience training, really?
Sarah Evans

My experience of being a doctor with psychosis
Katharine Fox

Books: Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Christopher Dowrick

Are you OK?
Tim Senior

Transforming the lives and careers of senior doctors: retaining and harnessing skills and enthusiasm in difficult times
Naureen Bhatti and Rebecca Viney

Bad Medicine: Resilience (see Letter responses below)
Des Spence

Ten Commandments for the resilient practitioner
Simon Tobin, Neal Maskrey

GPs’ demoralisation is due to our loss of human connection
David Zigmond

Increasing emotional support for healthcare workers can rebalance clinical detachment and empathy
Luke Austen

Sustainable general practice: looking across Europe
Mary McCarthy


Related links

*Latest resource* – NHS in Mind
Easy-to-access, short interventions and exercises to help colleagues through an incredibly difficult time

GP Wellbeing: Combatting Burnout in General Practice
This book is the first to explore the impact of burnout on GPs in the NHS and beyond

GP Health Service
Confidential NHS service for GPs and GP trainees

GP Survival
Facebook group

DocHealth
Psychotherapeutic consultation service for all doctors

The Vital Signs – A guide for doctors seeking help and advice [PDF]
Royal Medical Benevolent Fund

Tea and Empathy
Facebook group

GP resilience
Londonwide LMCs resilience page 
 
Research for GPs
Twitter page @GPWellbeing

More than half of practice staff suffer physical illness from work stress
Caroline Price, Pulse

Is Resilience Enough?
InnovAiT Blog

When the doctor is sick too
The Lancet

Editorial from the InnovAiT Special Issue on Resilience
Toby Holland, InnovAiT

Top tips: Improving your resilience at work
Chris Johnstone, InnovAiT

 

If you know of related links to be considered for this page, please email them to journal@rcgp.org.uk

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