Food bank use is a canary in the coal mine for mental health services

Pollard, Tom

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“…Interventions that result in limited success (e.g., reduced burnout among front-line staff) risk becoming the victim of their own success-meaning that healthcare organizations will be less motivated to engage in the long-term sustainable goal of healthy workplaces if we can extinguish some fires at the front-line. There is a reality outside of well-designed interventions where healthcare workers need to use foodbanks and will be less able to meet rising energy bills (especially in the UK) (29). Income inequality is an environmental stressor that is associated with higher levels of burnout, with research indicating that psychological demands placed on employees as a result of job insecurity are compounded when they occur in a context of economic inequality (30).…”

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Creating healthy workplaces in healthcare: Are we delaying progress by focusing on what we can do rather than what we should do?

Montgomery

Lainidi²

2023

Front. Public Health

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All the available evidence points to the fact that healthcare is under considerable stress, and while change is urgently needed there is no quick fix; systemic and sustained changes in organizational cultures within healthcare are required. Moreover, the fragility of healthcare systems globally has been starkly exposed by the Coronavirus 2019 pandemic. We have gathered enough evidence to know what is driving poor wellbeing, and how these processes impact on quality of care and patient safety. Indeed, we have a good idea of what we need to do to improve the situation. Therefore, this begs a simpler question; If we know how to create healthy workplaces, why is it so difficult to achieve this in healthcare? In the following perspective paper, we will argue that we can do better if we address the following three issues: (1) we are ignoring the real problems, (2) limited successes that we are achieving are moving us further from tackling the real problems, (3) culture change is accepted as crucial, but we are not accepting what the evidence is telling us about healthcare culture. Tackling burnout is useful and necessary, but we must increase dignity among healthcare employees. Moreover, we need to train line managers to recognize and facilitate the need of employees to feel competent and be appreciated by others, while helping them set wellbeing boundaries.

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Creating healthy workplaces in healthcare: Are we delaying progress by focusing on what we can do rather than what we should do?

Montgomery

Lainidi²

2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Concerns about widening inequalities have been brought into sharp focus by the cost of living crisis (doi:10.1136/bmj.o866, doi:10.1136/bmj.o759). 1011 The poorest in society will be the worst affected, and last week’s spring statement offered this group the least support. There have been multiple calls for the government to do more to help them—but is the government listening and will it act?…”

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Ignoring women’s experience led to the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal

Dobson¹

2022

BMJ

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“…There is no clear acknowledgement that food insecurity will have an impact on people’s physical and mental health. Tom Pollard’s recent report with IFAN and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlighted a ticking mental health time bomb 6…”

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A cursory National Food Strategy lacks substance and joined up thinking on food insecurity

Goodwin¹

2022

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In early April 2022, members of the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) wrote to Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, and Boris Johnson, the prime minister, to express their "deep concern at the scale of suffering they were already witnessing" as well as their capacity "to prevent people from going hungry in the weeks and months to come." 1 Independent food banks were reaching breaking point. The Food Standards Agency reported that as many as one in six people had used a food bank or food charity in March 2022. 2 And as the number of people being plunged into poverty increases yet further, independent food banks are struggling to cope as food and financial donations plummet. 3 Food bank teams have found themselves dipping into charity reserves to source supplies so that no one is turned away.

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Food bank use is a canary in the coal mine for mental health services

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Creating healthy workplaces in healthcare: Are we delaying progress by focusing on what we can do rather than what we should do?

Creating healthy workplaces in healthcare: Are we delaying progress by focusing on what we can do rather than what we should do?

Ignoring women’s experience led to the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal

A cursory National Food Strategy lacks substance and joined up thinking on food insecurity

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