Flexible working and teamwork are needed to protect doctors’ wellbeing, say leaders

Organisational interventions such as flexible working arrangements are urgently needed to improve the wellbeing of doctors and healthcare workers, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has said.1

Writing in the Lancet, RCP president Andrew Goddard and global vice president Mumtaz Patel said that the covid-19 pandemic has further exacerbated existing “tensions between medical professionalism …