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Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces is an initiative of the Welfare of Anaesthetists Special Interest Group and Everymind, with support from the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and additional funding leveraged under The Prevention Hub.

To encourage feedback and input from anaesthetists and the wider medical profession, they have set up a secure online discussion group for the Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces project. If you’re interested in joining the chat group please fill in the form on their website. Note: ASA members are automatically added to this discussion group once they log onto the members website. If you are an ASA member, you don’t need to fill in the form above. Simply log in and then go to https://asa.org.au/asa-forum/

The project has a toolkit to support better mental health and wellbeing for anaesthetists and anaesthetic trainees.

Download and print the toolkit.

Australasian Doctor's Health Network (ADHN)
"This website is designed for doctors and students, and for families and colleagues of doctors in Australia and New Zealand. The site provides you with contact phone numbers for immediate help and support.

If you are a doctor or medical student, this site also provides you with resources for promoting the work of the doctors' health advisory service in your state or territory, for helping your colleagues and for your own self-care, which is an essential prerequisite for competent medical practice." - Dr Bill Pring, Acting Chair ADHN
Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live.
Beyond Blue: National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students
The National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students was conducted with the aims of:
• understanding issues associated with the mental health of Australian medical students and doctors
• increasing awareness across the medical profession and broader community of issues associated with the mental
health of medical students and doctors, and
• informing the development of mental health services and supports for the medical profession.
Beyond Blue: Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service
Feeling worried or struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic? Beyond Blue have trained counsellors to support you 24/7.
Heads Up
Mentally healthy workplaces work better for everyone, and Heads Up aims to give individuals and businesses free tools and resources to take action.

Develop an action plan to create a mentally healthy workplace, find out about taking care of your own mental health, and get tips on having a conversation with someone you're concerned about.

Find out more about what Heads Up is doing to Promote the mental health of doctors and medical students, and get your workplace involved.
This Way Up – free tools to support wellbeing and mental health
Caring for your mental health is just as important as caring for your physical health.

This Way Up is a range of online tools and practical ways to support emotional wellbeing and protect mental health, that have been made freely available by Professor Gavin Andrews and a team of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists at St Vincent's Hospital. They also have really helpful responses to some common questions everyone is asking; just scroll to the bottom.

The tools include guided workbooks with practical tips and strategies, an audio guide and self-paced online treatment courses to tackle any specific symptoms you might be experiencing like insomnia, worry or anxiety. They are also offering free access to other courses to help people manage difficulties like stress, worry, anxiety and depression. The courses are available at https://thiswayup.org.au/how-we-can-help/courses/.

Doctors are Human

Created by doctors, for doctors,Doctors are Human gives doctors a public space to share their experiences, find support and inspiration.

Thewebsite's mission is "to create a space where all doctors, from students to senior clinicians, can share their struggles and triumphs, their stories, opinions, poetry and other arts, so no-one feels alone. By doing so, we hope to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and hopefully help someone, maybe stop the next death. Who knows? In this forum we may come up with ideas that will ultimately improve our workplace regulations and culture."

Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience

In 2017, the US National Academy of Medicine launched the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, a network of more than 200 organisations committed to reversing trends in clinician burnout. The Clinician Well-Being Collaborative has three goals:

Raise the visibility of clinician anxiety, burnout, depression, stress, and suicide
Improve baseline understanding of challenges to clinician well-being
Advance evidence-based, multidisciplinary solutions to improve patient care by caring for the caregiver

The Clinician Well-Being Collaborative is proud to have contributed to the movement to address burnout by convening, publishing, and shaping the national conversation along the priority areas of leadership engagement, breaking the culture of silence, organisational promising practices and metrics, workload and workflow, action on consensus report recommendations, and sustainability.

For more information visit theNational Academy of Medicine website

ANZCA Drs health & wellbeing

Healthy doctors ensure a sustainable workforce that provides best patient care. Find out what we're doing to support our doctors' health and wellbeing, and the services and resources available to our fellows, trainees, specialist international medical graduates and immediate family members.

Doctors' health and wellbeing (ANZCA)
ANZCA's dedicated Doctors' health and wellbeing page, which outlines the Doctors' Health and Wellbeing Framework, as well as other resources to support doctors and integrate supportive mechanisms within organisations.
ANZCA Doctors' Support Program
The ANZCA Doctors' Support Program (DSP) is a professional counselling service that offers confidential, short-term support for a variety of work-related and personal problems that may be affecting you at work or at home.
Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces
This toolkit is a resource to support anaesthesia departments and individual anaesthetists to operationalise a framework they can put into action.
LLHW Implementation Group
The Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces Toolkit Steering Group has prepared supplementary resources that we hope will help you to navigate the toolkit, and plan and implement a wellbeing strategy for your workplace.

COVID-19 wellbeing resources

APS: Tips for coping with coronavirus anxiety
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The Australian Psychological Society has prepared a guide for Australians, outlining some useful strategies which can help both adults and children cope with the stress or anxiety experienced as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
CSTS: Sustaining the Well-Being of Healthcare Personnel during Coronavirus and other Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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The extreme stress, uncertainty, and often difficult medical nature of global infectious disease outbreaks, such as Coronavirus (COVID-19), require special attention to the needs of healthcare personnel. Taking care of yourself and encouraging others to practice self-care sustains the ability to care for those in need.

A page containing CSTS fact sheets and other resources to support the health and well-being of communities impacted by COVID-19 can be found here.

'FACE COVID' - How to respond effectively to the Corona crisis by Dr Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap ‘FACE COVID’ is a set of practical steps for responding effectively to the Corona crisis, using the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Here’s a quick summary of the key steps, and in the pages that follow we’ll explore them all in more depth:
IASC: Briefing note on addressing mental health and psychosocial aspects of COVID-19 Outbreak (Version 1.1)
This briefing note summarises key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The brief was last updated February 2020.

Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria: For survivors during coronavirus
ICS: Wellbeing Resource Library
We care about your experience of your everyday working life in critical care. We know that sustaining the wellbeing of our staff means that we can provide a better service for our patients, and we make safer decisions and fewer mistakes. We know that this is not just about how you as an individual manage the stress of your job; it is about how your job is designed (including how valued you feel at work, your autonomy and sense of control), the way your unit is managed and your team is led, and the support from your peers.

This wellbeing hub therefore examines wellbeing from all angles - individual, team, and system.
Psychological resilience through the pandemic
This document aims to provide evidence-based, self-help information and tips for getting through the coronavirus pandemic, based on psychology, neuroscience, resilience research and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).

Compiled by Dr Kate Castle, Psychologist specialising in CBT
www.CBTbristol.net
Psychology Tools: Living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty
Psychology Tools have put together this free guide to help you to manage your worry and anxiety in these uncertain times.
WHO: Coping with stress during the 2019-nCOV outbreak
Information factsheet.

Helpful contact numbers for concerns about domestic violence

Safe and Equal (formerly Domestic Violence Victoria and Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria)

1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), the National Sexual Assault, Family and Domestic Violence Counselling Line for confidential phone help and referral

1800 LGBTIQ+ (1800 542 847) or www.withrespect.org.au for a specialist LGBTIQ+ family violence service

Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800

Men's Referral Service: 1300 766 491

RACGP: White Book - Abuse and violence - Working with our patients in general practice
The manual offers health practitioners evidence-based guidance on appropriate identification and response in clinical practice to patients experiencing abuse and violence.

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