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Your wellbeing service

 

Access to confidential counselling, wellbeing app, podcasts, webinars and more

Mental wellbeing is something we all manage on a day-to-day basis. The pressures and demands you face as a doctor, nurse or healthcare professional can make this challenging – more so now than ever before.

It’s not always easy to notice when your mental wellbeing may be suffering or to know what to do to improve it. So, we’re making it easier for you to assess your own wellbeing and get support if you need it.

Whether you want to lower your stress levels, sleep better or reduce burnout, we can help you take positive steps to better mental wellbeing.

We’ve partnered with Lyra International to give you access to immediate practical support. You can download the Hub app for a personalised wellness service and talk one-on-one to a licensed counsellor as part of your membership.

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Confidential counselling from Lyra

Our counselling service is provided by our trusted partner Lyra, who offer a personalised and professional service tailored specifically to your requirements and delivered by experienced qualified counsellors.  

Lyra's telephone counselling provides immediate access to support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and face-to-face counselling sessions can be arranged near to you and at your convenience, all funded by Medical Protection. 

The service is entirely independent and confidential.  

To book a free session call Lyra on 0800 808 374 and quote your Medical Protection membership number. Up to 6 sessions are available as part of the free counselling service.  

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Lyra Wellbeing Hub

Access to the ‘Lyra Wellbeing Hub’ is just one of the benefits of Medical Protection membership.

The Hub app provides a personalised online wellness service, offering members 24/7 access to confidential advice, guidance, and self-learning tools created by experts.

Keep on top of your wellbeing with a selection of recipes, articles, and advice, and take positive steps to improvement with five-day challenges, wellness assessments, personal health reports, interactive quizzes, and more.

Search for ‘Lyra Wellbeing Hub’ in the Apple App Store or Google Play and use code MP001 to get started.

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50% off Portal Premium: the award-winning wellbeing app that takes you away from it all

Our surroundings have a huge impact on our mental wellbeing, but we often have little control over the environments we spend most of our time in. Portal changes that.

Portal harnesses the power of immersive technology, including 3D spatial audio and smart lighting integration, to provide instant escapes to some of the most calming, remote and peaceful locations on the planet. From tropical beaches in Thailand to thunderstorms in the Amazon rainforest, these environments are all designed to help you sleep, focus, relax and unwind.

Portal Premium is available on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro.

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Breaking the burnout cycle

A recent Medical Protection survey of health professionals in New Zealand shows increasing levels of burnout among the profession. Burnout creates problems not just for the clinician as an individual, but it can also impact patients and the wider medical team.

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Other support available

Podcast:
Getting to sleep during COVID -19

Dr Pallavi Bradshaw, medicolegal lead, risk prevention at Medical Protection, talks to Dr David O'Regan, consultant psychiatrist and sleep specialist at the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London. Exploring the potential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on sleep and wellbeing. Offering practical tips and techniques to help improve sleep during a time of worry and uncertainty.

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Recorded webinar:
Looking After Yourself Self-care Through COVID–19

As the lives of doctors around the world are being transformed by the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, Medical Protection believes it is critical to support all members to take decisive and significant action to sustain their own physical and mental wellbeing and support their colleagues in this time of crisis.

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Webinar:
Building resilience, avoiding burnout – the ‘me’ factors

 

Watch on Prism