Letters
Supporting doctors facing burnout
Northern Ireland needs a practitioner health service
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r599 (Published 01 April 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r599
- Emma Murtagh, general practitioner, vice chair,
- Ursula Mason, general practitioner, chair
- RCGP Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK
- emma.murtagh{at}rcgp.org.uk
Wilkinson brings the challenges of burnout and mental ill health faced by doctors into sharp focus.1
In Northern Ireland, we look with envy at the provision of NHS Practitioner Health in England, and the corresponding services in Wales, Scotland, and the Republic of Ireland. We are the only nation on these islands without a commissioned, confidential mental health service for clinicians.
In the 2024 Royal …
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