Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West Offer
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the NHS Clinical Leaders Network (CLN) developed ‘The North West Offer’ for Enhancing Mental Health Resilience (EMHR) in the north west of England. The EMHR programme aimed to reinforce psychological resilience in the healthcare workforce; that is, enhance the mental, e...
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| description | During the COVID-19 pandemic, the NHS Clinical Leaders Network (CLN) developed ‘The North West Offer’ for Enhancing Mental Health Resilience (EMHR) in the north west of England. The EMHR programme aimed to reinforce psychological resilience in the healthcare workforce; that is, enhance the mental, emotional and behavioural adaptation processes of the workforce to pandemic challenges.The present paper describes the EMHR programme, reviews its evaluation outcomes and proposes a series of recommendations regarding promoting psychological resilience in the healthcare workforce.Recommendations include establishing reflective support for leaders, promoting knowledge sharing between leaders and organisations, collaborating with a variety of internal and external partners to maximise staff access to psychological services, ensuring uninterrupted access to clinical psychologists for staff use and monitoring of at-risk staff. These recommendations are expected to strengthen mental health workforce resilience for stressors during business as usual as well as future pandemic planning. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e35c5b7a77d04c2e99ad040f9c63ec812025-08-20T02:28:37ZengElsevierFuture Healthcare Journal2514-66452025-06-0112210024910.1016/j.fhj.2025.100249Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West OfferGeorgia Lada0Amy L Rathbone1Andy Coley2Jane Cummings3Cecil Kullu4Raj Kumar5Joe Rafferty6Rajan Madhok7Sir Cary L Cooper8C Elise Kleyn9Dermatology Centre, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom; Corresponding author.Dermatology Centre, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; University of East Anglia, School of Health Sciences, Norwich, United KingdomNHS Clinical Leaders Network, United KingdomNHS Gloucestershire, Gloucester, United KingdomGreater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United KingdomNHS Clinical Leaders Network, United Kingdom; Eric Moore Parthership, Warrington, United KingdomMersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United KingdomRetired public health doctor, United KingdomAlliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United KingdomDermatology Centre, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United KingdomDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the NHS Clinical Leaders Network (CLN) developed ‘The North West Offer’ for Enhancing Mental Health Resilience (EMHR) in the north west of England. The EMHR programme aimed to reinforce psychological resilience in the healthcare workforce; that is, enhance the mental, emotional and behavioural adaptation processes of the workforce to pandemic challenges.The present paper describes the EMHR programme, reviews its evaluation outcomes and proposes a series of recommendations regarding promoting psychological resilience in the healthcare workforce.Recommendations include establishing reflective support for leaders, promoting knowledge sharing between leaders and organisations, collaborating with a variety of internal and external partners to maximise staff access to psychological services, ensuring uninterrupted access to clinical psychologists for staff use and monitoring of at-risk staff. These recommendations are expected to strengthen mental health workforce resilience for stressors during business as usual as well as future pandemic planning.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2514664525000281Workforce resilienceClinical leadershipNHSHealthcare workforceCOVID-19 pandemic |
| spellingShingle | Georgia Lada Amy L Rathbone Andy Coley Jane Cummings Cecil Kullu Raj Kumar Joe Rafferty Rajan Madhok Sir Cary L Cooper C Elise Kleyn Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West Offer Future Healthcare Journal Workforce resilience Clinical leadership NHS Healthcare workforce COVID-19 pandemic |
| title | Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West Offer |
| title_full | Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West Offer |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West Offer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West Offer |
| title_short | Enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during COVID-19: lessons from The North West Offer |
| title_sort | enhancing mental health resilience in the healthcare workforce during covid 19 lessons from the north west offer |
| topic | Workforce resilience Clinical leadership NHS Healthcare workforce COVID-19 pandemic |
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