‘Apply’ break for NHS Staff Welling – William
PA mediaPrince of Wales suggested that NHS employees should have applied a career brake to assist their mental health.
Prince William commented while visiting Oasis Health and Welling Center and Garden at Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) in reading.
He attended a meeting to hear how health workers competed with an epidemic and interacted with employees who were on the frontline.
Prince – a former air ambulance helicopter pilot – told a small group of NHS employees who use the feature: “Everyone in NHS is to take care of others, so the last person who takes care is the person.”
PA mediaRBH recorded the first person to die after a positive test for Kovid -19, five years ago on 5 March 2020.
Rajkumar visited the center of the trust in his role as the royal patron of NHS charities, providing £ 3M required to renew the center, with a gym, yoga classes and a garden that provides spaces for entertainment, reflection and vegetables.
NHS Charities simultaneously launched their Kovid -19 immediate appeal in 2020 and raised £ 162M to support NHS staff, patients and communities working with a network of 235 NHS charity located in every trust and health board around the UK.
PA mediaPrince William heard that a senior nurse became emotional when he described not visiting his elderly parents in Italy, to save them for two years to save them.
Rajkumar said, “Everyone in NHS is to take care of others, so the last person who takes care is the person.”
“I have seen when I have worked with doctors, nurses, paramedics – they always put it in line, they do not want to put their workload on anyone else – how do you roam to identify the right people?
“Because for me, looking at the mental health of the nation, if you like, in the last few years, unless there is almost an applied brake in someone’s career – as part of your career development – we are never going to reach the point where we can take care of their mental health, because you always trust the person.”
