Most dog owners would probably agree that during these dank, dark and dreary days of January it’s hard to be motivated to walk your four-legged friend. Some canines would agree with that too, including mine who’s most definitely a fair-weather walker! However, once up and about, the benefits to you both can be huge. “But…

October is the month when, annually, we celebrate World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme is ‘Mental health is a universal human right’. The aim of the day is to raise awareness and make positive changes. It’s also a specific date in our diaries to make time to talk about mental health – looking after…

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme is anxiety. It’s fair to say that most of us will have experienced anxiety at some point in our lives. It’s a normal emotion to experience, which at everyday levels can be helpful. It heightens our awareness and pushes us to focus, perhaps priming…

Supporting the primary care workforce during and after the COVID-19 pandemic is a priority for the national NHS England and NHS Improvement Primary Care team. Rapid engagement with frontline staff at the start of the pandemic enabled a service to be designed around their needs, utilising coaching as an intervention to support psychological wellbeing and…

It will come as no surprise that over the past 14 months, there has been an exponential increase in the number of adults reporting signs of anxiety and in those accessing support for depression. Now, over a year into the pandemic, there’s finally hope on the horizon, and while many breathe a sigh of relief,…

Christmas lights are coming down, it’s cold outside, the dark months are upon us and the world has a killer pandemic on the rampage, how much worse can it get? Bad news… January and February are going to be some of the toughest months for the NHS in a long, long time. The perfect storm,…

However positive you try to be, however hard you try to motivate morale across the practice and however hard you work to try and keep patients happy, there’s no escaping the fact that 2020 has been extremely challenging for practice managers. COVID-19 has turned the world on its head, making an already stressful, difficult sector…