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Call to treat doctors for Covid PTSD
Sunday Express
|February 02, 2025
AN urgent call is being made for health services to be stepped up for NHS staff amid fears many are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following the Covid pandemic.
And warnings that medical workers are suffering "flashbacks" but have received no support are to be probed by health minister Stephen Kinnock.
One in 20 GPs have used a specialist service to help workers with mental health and addiction issues.
The alarm was raised by Labour MP Peter Prinsley, a former consultant surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, who warned doctors needed urgent help.
He highlighted the case of a former medical student "who described the terrible flashbacks and post-traumatic stress disorder of the young clinical intensive therapy unit staff who witnessed 40 or 50 Covid admissions die at a hospital in Yorkshire, and the complete lack of support they received.
"Many are reluctant to seek help and do not know where to turn.
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