Enhancing Mental Health Resilience in the Healthcare Workforce During Covid-19: Lessons from The North West Offer

Georgia Lada; Amy Leigh  Rathbone; Andy Coley; Jane Cummings; Cecil Kullu; Raj Kumar; Joe Rafferty; Rajan Madhok; Cary L Cooper; Elise Kleyn MBChB, FRCP, MMedSci, PhD

doi:10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100249

Enhancing Mental Health Resilience in the Healthcare Workforce During Covid-19: Lessons from The North West Offer

Georgia Lada
, Amy Leigh Rathbone
, Andy Coley
, Jane Cummings
, Cecil Kullu
, Raj Kumar
, Joe Rafferty
, Rajan Madhok
, Cary L Cooper
, Elise Kleyn MBChB, FRCP, MMedSci, PhD

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, the NHS Clinical Leaders Network (CLN) developed “The North West Offer” for Enhancing Mental Health Resilience (EMHR) in the North West of England. The EMHR programme aimed to reinforce psychological resilience in the healthcare workforce; that is, enhance the mental, emotional and behavioural adaptation processes of the workforce to pandemic challenges.
The present paper describes the EMHR programme, reviews its evaluation outcomes and proposes a series of recommendations regarding promoting psychological resilience in the healthcare workforce.
Recommendations include establishing reflective support for leaders, promoting knowledge sharing between leaders and organisations, collaborating with a variety of internal and external partners to maximise staff access to psychological services, ensuring uninterrupted access to clinical psychologists for staff use and monitoring of at risk staff. These recommendations are expected to aid strengthen mental health workforce resilience for stressors during business-as-usual as well as future pandemic planning.

Original language	English
Article number	100249
Journal	Future healthcare journal
Early online date	10 Apr 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100249
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 10 Apr 2025

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Lada, G., Rathbone, A. L., Coley, A., Cummings, J., Kullu, C., Kumar, R., Rafferty, J., Madhok, R., Cooper, C. L., & Kleyn MBChB, FRCP, MMedSci, PhD, E. (2025). Enhancing Mental Health Resilience in the Healthcare Workforce During Covid-19: Lessons from The North West Offer. Future healthcare journal, Article 100249. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100249

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