Forth Valley Health Board Support
Self Help
Information and advice on a wide range of commonly experienced difficulties plus some self-help guides
Website aimed at helping people tackle stress
NHS 24 Living Life: CBT Telephone service: 0800 328 9655
Stress Control: course aimed to understand stress and skills to overcome this
Forth Valley Staff only: 3 week course biannually Susan Anderson 01324 673 524 or fv.stresscontrol@nhs.scot
Patients and staff: 6 weekly courses 01259 215 048 integratedmentalhealth@clacks.gov.uk or book on line at www.bookwhen.com/imhs
Spiritual care 01324 566 071 (office) fv.spiritualcare@nhs.scot
Face-to-face help
Remember your own GP
FV GP Mentoring Service : fv.gpmentoringfv@nhs.scot
FV Occupational Health Service – doctors can self-refer including locums
01324 566663 fv.ohsadmin@nhs.scot
Offer services including pre-placement assessments, immunisation and BBV exposure, health surveillance, physio advice and support, mental health advice and support, specialist Occupational health advice and support.
Employee Counselling 01324 566 663 via occupational health
External Resources
The Workforce Specialist Service
The WSS, delivered by NHS Practitioner Health, is a confidential multidisciplinary mental health service with expertise in treating regulated health and social services professionals. They specialise in caring for regulated professionals as patients, and as such are experts at the interface between regulation, employment and mental illness and addiction.
The WSS understands your needs as professionals with mental health and/or addiction problems, how this might impact on your ability to seek out help, and how your condition might impact on your work and potentially those in your care. The WSS provider is skilled at helping professionals return to work or training, and they treat practitioners with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety or with more severe illnesses, such as bipolar affective disorder, personality disorders and with a range of addiction issues.
If you are a regulated practitioner working in Scotland, you can get a better understanding of what the service provides and refer yourself by visiting:
Accessing the service in Scotland (practitionerhealth.nhs.uk) or you can also email prac.health@nhs.net or call 0300 0303 300.
Mental Well being Support Line
A new national wellbeing helpline has been launched
to provide psychological support to health and social
care staff across Scotland. The line, which is staffed
by trained practitioners at NHS 24, is available 24/7 and provides a compassionate and empathic listening service based as well as advice, signposting and onward referral to local services, if required.
Trained practitioners at NHS 24 will offer callers a compassionate and empathic listening service based on the principles of psychological first aid, as well as advice, signposting and onward referral to local services, if required. The health and social care workforce mental wellbeing support line is confidential and can be contacted on 0800 111 4191. Details of other local and national support services can also be found on NHS Forth Valley’s Staff Support and Wellbeing website www.nhsforthvalley.com/staffsupport
BMA Counselling and peer support for doctors and medical students
British Doctors & Dentists Group Helpline 08704445163
(Support for recovering drug and alcohol misusers)
There is also a local BDDG (British Doctors & Dentist Group) for colleagues who may have developed an abnormal coping strategy with alcohol &/or drugs.
It’s also confidential & run by 2 GPs who have had GMC issues in the past & are now in Recovery/back to work/thriving.
Contact no 07989 747 304
We meet the first Saturday of every month, 6.30-7.30pm, in the library of St Columba’s Church, Park Avenue, Kings Park, Stirling.
During the pandemic crisis BDDG Peer support meetings continue to take place online on a weekly basis via Zoom; for details please contact as above
DoctorsSupport Network :
Email Scotland@dsn.org.uk
Royal Medical Benevolent Fund 02085409194
The RMBF provides support for doctors and their families through all stages of their career and beyond. Help ranges from financial assistance in the form of grants and loans to a telephone befriending scheme.
Royal Medical Foundation 01372821011
o Their remit is to assist registered doctors and their families who are in financial hardship. Practical assistance is given in three ways:
- Provision of regular payments to their widows, widowers and their children
- Provision of one-off grants when emergency help is required
and
- In exceptional circumstances, we can provide assistance with school fees for sons or daughters of registered doctors enabling them to maintain educational stability at times of distress caused by illness, bereavement or financial need in their family
Sick Doctors Trust 0370 444 1563
Provide a 24 hour help line for those suffering from addiction issues
Cameron Fund cameronfund.org.uk
The Cameron Fund is the GPs’ own charity.
It is the only medical benevolent fund that
solely supports general practitioners and their dependents. They provide support to GPs and their families in times of financial need, whether through ill-health, disability, death or loss of employment. They help those who are already suffering from financial hardship and those
who are facing it.
Gay & Lesbian Assocation of Doctors and Dentists ( GLADD)
www.gladd.co.uk
e mail admin@gladd.co.uk
RCGP Mentoring Scheme
This is open to all GPs and not just members. The scheme is aimed to give work/life support to doctors and it is not a doctors in difficulty scheme.
Please see details on the link below: