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Support for doctors
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Updated 1 March 2012
If you do have concerns about your training, it is important that you contact either your educational or clinical supervisor immediately. This should be done in a formal setting. If you are still not happy after having spoken to the educational or clinical supervisor, please contact the foundation training programme director or one of the district or clinical associate tutors.
There are also organisations which deal with doctors in personal trouble.
Medic Support
Medic Support is a confidential service specifically for doctors and dentists training in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, offering psychotherapy and psychology. It is provided by Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Healthcare Trust and funded by the Oxford Deanery.
The service is flexible, offering a rapid response and a choice of therapeutic treatment at an accessible city centre setting.
You can refer yourself or you can be referred by a colleague, such as an educational supervisor or occupational health physician.
The service operates on the basis of strict confidentiality. Medic Support does not provide any reports to tutors, employing authorities or referrers without your agreement unless there are exceptional and life-threatening circumstances. Any concerns about confidentiality can be discussed at the assessment meeting.
The service is run by experienced NHS staff: a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, each of whom have worked for the NHS for more than twenty years and have a special interest in occupational stress.
You can contact Medic Support by phone or email:
The following are also available for listening and can refer you to the Isis Centre.
Oxford hospitals
Tel: 01865 220798 - John Radcliffe Hospital
Tel: 01295 229442 - Horton General Hospital
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Tel: 0845 769 7555
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
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British Medical Association
The BMA is an independent trade union and professional association. It offers support for professional, ethical and personal matters.
Tel: 020 7383 6400
Tel: 08459 200169 (Doctors for Doctors)
www.bma.org.uk
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Oxford Deanery Career Development Unit
This unit at the Oxford Deanery provides a comprehensive career development service for all doctors that includes a career management and information service, help for individual doctors at any stage in their career and an advisory service for trainers, employers and other agencies with responsibility for governance, who need to support the development of a doctor.
www.oxforddeanerycdu.org.uk
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Defeat Depression Leaflet - Royal College of Psychiatrists
Available from the Postgraduate Centres’ leaflet/information stands or from the Royal College of Psychiatrists at www.rcpsych.ac.uk
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Doctors' Support Network
Anonymous confidential peer support
Tel: 0870 321 0642
www.dsn.org.uk
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Medical Defence Union
Tel: 020 7720 100
www.the-mdu.com
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Narcotics Anonymous
Tel: 020 7730 0009
Tel: 0845 3733366
www.ukna.org
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The Samaritans
Tel: 08457 909090
www.samaritans.org.uk
Text: 07725 909090
jo@samaritans.org.uk
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Sick Doctors Trust
Tel: 0870 444 5163
www.sick-doctors-trust.co.uk
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Support4Doctors
Support4Doctors been developed by the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. It aims to provide independent, non judgemental help for doctors by routing them through to a wide range of sources of information, advice and support, including money and finance, health and well being, work and career, family and home. www.support4doctors.org