Doctors face mental health crisis amid rising pressure, warns BMA report

NHS doctors are facing a mental health crisis because of unprecedented pressure from increasingly complex clinical work alongside chronic understaffing and rising bureaucracy, a BMA report warns.

by Nick Bostock

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