Dialogue | NHS staff – working under severe distress and risk

Staff in the NHS, whether nurses, doctors, receptionists, cleaners and others, have been working in unprecedented conditions in the last year: with risk to their own health and life, contact with patients and colleagues restricted and altered, their work changed and the pressure on them often massively increased. This has led to severe distress, burnout and significant mental health problems in many.

Rob Harland, psychoanalyst and consultant psychiatrist in the NHS, who has been involved in his Trust’s Covid response and worked on a Covid ward for a while, will be in conversation with Maggie Bisset, Nurse Consultant in Palliative Care, who set up a rapid access response for NHS and social care staff needing to talk about what they were encountering in the pandemic, which analysts, therapists and counsellors volunteered time for. The dialogue will be chaired by Megan Virtue, psychoanalyst and consultant clinical psychologist in an NHS hospital, who has been involved in supporting staff working on Covid wards.

We are now offering a 50% discount code for this event to all NHS staff, please use the code "NHS50" when booking.

These dialogues will be held live on Zoom and will also be made available the following day for  24 hours to all registered participants. This is to allow for international attendees to enjoy the event at a more appropriate time in their time zone. After this, the recording will no longer be available.