Wellbeing - Dreading the second wave

Wellbeing - Dreading the second wave

Author: The BMJ October 20, 2020 Duration: 32:10
The "second wave" of covid is hitting the UK, and clinicians are anticipating a spike in demand in the NHS. The inevitability of that is weighing on NHS staff's minds. In this podcast, Cormac Doyle, a retired senior army officer, who specialises in military mental health/ veterans and support other with psychological trauma, returns to the podcast to talk about his experience of deployment in the military, and how individuals and their employers can make the inevitability of a second wave less daunting.

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