To mark International Women’s Day this month, we’re featuring some of the female-lead startups and individuals in our digital health community making a difference in health and care!
Find out more about one of our amazing members Doctors in Distress; a UK Charity dedicated to providing mental wellbeing support to healthcare workers, aiming to reduce suicide rates.
This International Women’s Day, we celebrated being part of a team of women who are pioneers in their field, strong, knowledgeable, kind and compassionate. We stand alongside each other and share our knowledge and experiences.
Working with women is inspiring – our ability to solve problems whilst empathising with others. Every day we are grateful for the ability, thoughtfulness and openness in our team. There is a long way to go before we reach gender equality in the working world and we want women not to settle for less than they are worth, but today we celebrate the steps that have been taken by all the women before us. It is our hope that one day soon all women and girls realise their potential to be effective and powerful leaders and take their rightful place as equals in every space they occupy.
More than 300 NHS workers attempted suicide during the first year of the Covid pandemic. Doctors in Distress is committed to reducing the prevalence of burnout and suicide among all medical professionals in the UK.
We are. determined to reduce stigma around mental health, change behaviours and cultures in the medical profession and promote the values of good leadership. We provide safe professionally facilitated spaces for talking and listening, workshops with specialist speakers and verified statistical data to support our methodology. There is no healthcare without selfcare.
To date, Doctors in Distress has provided support to across the UK to Junior Doctors, Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Paramedics, Black Medics, Overseas Doctors, ITU Teams and Primary Care Clinical Directors.
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We're so proud to have Doctors in Distress as part of our community. Find out more about what they do and connect with their amazing team here.