Robyn Vesey – Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care During the COVID-19 Crisis

Resource description: Robyn Vesey is an Organisational Consultant at Tavistock Consulting. In this podcast Robyn offers practical pointers for leaders and managers in their role during this challenging time, and how they can support their teams as well as themselves. To accompany this podcast we have added three resources; Managing Anxiety, Keeping a Gratitude Journal, […]

Jo O’Reilly – Organisational Wellbeing

Resource description: Dr Jo O’Reilly is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy at the Camden and Islington Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Service. She is also a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Jo talks here about the kinds of familiar and potentially unhelpful processes that get going in organisations at highly challenging  times like these, with some […]

Irene Henderson – Coronavirus and Race

Resource description: Irene Henderson is the Clinical Governance & Quality Manager and Race Diversity Champion at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Irene shares some observations about where race and racism seem to have featured in the unfolding story of COVID-19, and some ideas about what any of us, whether from a BAME background […]

Lucy Swift – Managing Screen Time

Resource description: Lucy Swift is an Occupational Therapist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust working with patients who have chronic musculoskeletal pain. Lucy provides advice about how to manage screen time while working from home and shares information about some helpful apps that can support you with this. Wellbeing Quiz Profile: #MoreFrantic #DoingOkay […]

Sarah Helps – Family communication during the COVID-19 outbreak: A guide for keyworker parents and carers to talk to children

Resource description: Sarah Helps is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Family Therapist at the Tavistock Clinic. This podcast accompanies a help sheet regarding family communication during COVID-19. Sarah speaks about the guide designed for keyworker parents and carers to support them in talking to children about being a keyworker over this time. Read time: […]

Ravi Rana – Managing COVID-19 Information Overload

Resource description: Ravi Rana is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of Therapies at East London NHS Foundation Trust. In this podcast she talks about the wealth of information created in response to COVID-19 for the general public and health and social care professionals, and that while helpful, there is a danger of becoming overwhelmed and […]

Sleep Hygiene Information

The Centre for Clinical Interventions have created a useful guide on sleep hygiene, with a range of helpful tips to manage sleep difficulties.

Headspace App: Free for NHS Staff

Headspace have made their mindfulness app free to all NHS clinical and non-clinical staff to provide support in this time of crisis. The app provides a range of mindfulness meditations. Wellbeing Quiz Profile: #MoreFrantic #FeelingHopeless

Andrew Cooper – the impact of living and working with death

Resource description: Andrew Cooper is a Family Therapist and a Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Andrew talks about one of the most difficult things that any of us face in the current situation, the impact of living and working with death, a particular challenge with COVID-19 even for […]