In <24 hours 7000 NHS staff have signed this open letter condemning NHS England’s decision to defund vital, life-saving mental health support for doctors.

Please keep sharing & signing.

NHS Practitioner Health costs a mere 0.007% of NHSE’s budget.

Are we really worth so very little?

URGENT REQUEST FOR HELP FROM NHS STAFF:

NHS England will cut funding for mental health support for hospital staff from tomorrow

Please take 30 seconds to sign this open letter to Amanda Pritchard if you agree they should reconsider👇

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Dear Adam Kay Carol Vorderman James O'Brien michael sheen 💙 rob delaney Peter Stefanovic - please share this open letter from NHS staff expressing our dismay at the government's decision to cut funding to mental health services for NHS staff from Monday. Thank you 💙

💥 NHS STAFF 💥

Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.

Please share widely 🙏

Letter here:

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A reminder why NHS Practitioner Health was first set up - after the heartbreaking tragedy of a doctor who so feared stigma from colleagues she felt unable to seek mental health support - & killed herself & her baby daughter.

Please don't defund this vital service, NHS England 🙏

This is disastrous, hideous news. NHS England are hacking back the mental health support for hospital staff. One doctor takes their life every three weeks. One nurse takes their life every single week. These numbers will now INCREASE. Victoria Atkins - please do the right thing.

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