Doctor Health and Well-being Group
The aim of this SIG will be to Support GP/Family Doctor (FD) Health & Well-being.
What is the rationale for a SIG for GP/FD Health & Well-being?
- Doctors’ health and well-being is a crucial part of workforce capacity for
- Coming to work to deliver patient care
- Delivering quality care (quality = safe, timely, effective, efficient, person-centered care)
- Improving patient safety and minimising medical errors, diagnostic delay and misdiagnosis
- Wise use of healthcare resources
- Prevention activities
- Innovation and improvements in patient care
- Research for continuous improvement of care
Supporting the health and healthcare of GP/FDs contributes to the retention of the GP workforce.
The GP workforce is a precious resource in the healthcare system.
A healthy supported GP workforce is likely to be the best way to recruit new GPs into the profession
How can this proposed SIG achieve this?
A SIG for supporting Doctors Health and Well-being will ask MOs, Networks, SIGs and the WP to share information on activities and resources for the benefit of all GPs / Family Doctors in the WONCA Europe region. This shared resource will help improve GP/FD supports in each country on:
- Preventing and Managing Burnout
- Stress management and building resilience
- Career development, planning and mentoring
- Strategies for Work-Life Balance and Managing Clinical and Administrative workloads
- Encouraging Self-Care, and empowering healthy health behaviours and outcomes
- Preventing and managing mental health issues such as anxiety, depression
- Promoting “a GP for every GP” in the WONCA Europe Region
- Peer support for GPs; inclusivity, diversity and equity for GPs
- Raise awareness of interventions for substance misuse
- Interventions for doctors in crisis when there is a risk to their health or patient care.
- Andree.Rochfort@icgp.ie
- Last Modified
- 7 Jan 2025