Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support the NHS provides for GPs experiencing mental ill health.

The Department remains committed to delivering the recommendations set out in the General Practice Forward View published in April 2016 which, as part of a broader package of support, ensures improved access to mental health support for general practitioners (GPs) and trainee GPs who may be suffering from mental ill-health.

To this end NHS England has committed to invest an extra £16 million in addition to the £3.5 million already announced in providing a free and confidential specialist occupational mental health service to support GPs.

Source:

http://gphealth.nhs.uk/