Much like our 999 teams, our emergency department (ED) staff save lives every day, facing traumatic situations regularly - their mental health matters.
Our 'Taking Care Of You' campaign was aimed at emergency department staff. You can read our key messages, recommendations and access some tools and tips here.
Our evaluation showed that some of the most effective tools were our 'Going home checklist', 'Breathing window' and the '90 seconds stress scan'.
We'll be sharing other tips in the coming weeks – please see below our key messages and recommendations.
Our research partner, Revealing Reality conducted an initial scoping exercise to better understand the specific pressures or problems that cause poor mental health in the ED and what kinds of intervention would (or wouldn't) work – you can read their findings here.
We also asked them to conduct an evaluation of our campaign – read Revealing Reality's full report here.