NHS bosses must tackle mental health crisis among doctors, says BMA

The BMA is calling on employers to sign up to a wellbeing charter to improve doctors’ working lives.

The association commissioned qualitative research to establish which factors contributed to poor mental health among doctors.1 Researchers conducted 30 interviews with doctors from a range of specialties and levels of seniority, as well as two online focus groups with medical students and junior doctors.

They established five key factors that …