Resilience

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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.

This page features:

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

Research

*New research* – 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

*New research* – 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

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

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

*New book review* – 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

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