“A complaint does not


mean you are a bad doctor. It does not negate all the good work you have done in your life”


SOURCES 1.NHS Digital. Data on written complaints in the NHS, 2016-17 - NHS Digital. Go to tinyurl.com/ ybfuw6g5 (Accessed 29 Apr. 2018) 2 Bourne T, et al. The impact of complaints procedures on the welfare, health and clinical practice of doctors. BMJ Open 2015 (tinyurl.com/yc57tza2) 3 GMC. Doctors who commit suicide while under GMC fitness to practise investigation. 2014.


INTERNATIONAL PRACTITIONER HEALTH SUMMIT


THE WOUNDED HEALER – The NHS Practitioner Health Programme will be holding a conference exploring the impact of complaints and other aspects of physician and practitioner health, with a particular focus on mental health. The International Practitioner Health Summit 2018: The Wounded Healer will be held on 4 and 5 of October 2018, at the


HEALER


Royal College of General Practitioners in London. Sir Simon Wessely, President of The Royal Society of Medicine, will


join Professor Clare Gerada (pictured) and speakers including NHS chief executive Simon Stevens, best-selling author and neurosurgeon Mr Henry Marsh, Dr Abigail Zuger of Icahn School of Medicine in New York, writer, comedian and former junior doctor, Adam Kay and others. Find out more and book a place at www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/practitioner-health-summit


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Photograph: Alamy


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