We have released a new podcast as part of NHS Domestic Abuse Awareness Day - Understanding Subtle Abuse: A Hidden Epidemic. @drseemahaider.bsky.social an i have a conversation with expert in subtle abuse Dr Rosemary Parkinson: open.spotify.com/episode/0vLO...

Understanding subtle abuse: A hidden epidemic

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open.substack.com/pub/medicalw... Hope is Healing My new blog for DAUK & Medical Women’s Federation #vawg #genderbasedviolence #domesticabuse l

This is such a powerful sequence on Breaking the silence:Kate’s story on ITVx. If you care about gender equality,the prevention of violence against women& girls, children, social justice- this is a much watch. Thanks to @bmj.com @nhsprachealth.bsky.social @itvx.com & the inspirational True vision

Breaking the silence: Kate’s story available on ITV X Research from Bristol Uni showed 42% of healthcare professionals globally have experienced domestic abuse. It can affect MPs, doctors, police officers, university lecturers, social workers - absolutely anyone.Watch this powerful documentary🎥

With thanks to @bmj.com @nhsprachealth.bsky.social @itvx.com True Vision Productions & the incredibly talented Rachel Cumella. This is for my NHS colleagues and women & girls everywhere. Courage is contagious ❤️

Healthcare professionals experience high rates of #DomesticAbuse. Who can help the helpers? Listen back to this NHS Practitioner Health podcast, which features CAPC's Dr Sandi Dheensa who has been researching the issue. Podcast: bit.ly/41v1J6I @nihrspcr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk

Surviving Domestic Abuse as a Health and Care Professional with Dr Seema Haider and Dr Sandi Dheensa - NHS Practitioner Health Wellbeing Podcast

To mark 16 days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, NHS Practitioner Health clinicians Dr Kath O'Hara and Dr Hannah Minor are joined by Dr Seema Haider and Dr Sandi Dheensa to discuss health an...

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This blog is for anyone who has lost a parent or cared for a sick parent, with an understanding that being a healthcare professional brings a unique kind of pain to the experience ❤️‍🩹 doctors-in-distress.org.uk/alzheimers-d...

“Domestic abuse needs secrecy, silence, and shame to continue. We must do more to provide psychologically safe spaces for our colleagues to seek help.” Read the article from @drseemahaider.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/386/... #NoExcuse #16Days

A deeply personal blog with thanks to Docs in distress Alzheimer’s Disease: the great leveller ‘It would make a wonderful Netflix film- themes of war, religion, perseverance & of course love as the all conquering force…It was ‘kismet’ in its purest form’ doctors-in-distress.org.uk/alzheimers-d...

Will Gen Z save the NHS ‘Afterall, absorbing endless work like a sponge and running the NHS on goodwill has not proved to be a successful strategy. In fact, it has allowed us to be manipulated in quite a profound and insidious way’ www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/guest-...

Will Generation Z save the NHS?

Dr Seema Haider on whether or not the newest generation of doctors will break the patterns of general practice, and change the face of the NHS

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‘Drexit & Moral Injury NHS leadership will tell me that this needs a mindset shift, to surrender to the things beyond my control or to sharpen my resilience & optimise my wellbeing. We are effectively being asked to find workarounds so we can get comfortable with providing substandard care’

Drexit: Moral injury is destroying the foundation of our NHS

Dr Seema Haider explores the collective 'moral injury' that doctors are facing, and confronts the institutional failings contributing to it

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My first article- with thanks to The Independent. It was incredibly powerful: the hope that you can change someone’s trajectory through human connection and kindness, in the face of what was essentially the fear this boy felt at our “otherness”. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-d...

The racism I experience as a doctor puts the NHS to shame

We must make a much greater effort to address discrimination in the medical profession, writes Dr Seema Haider. Prejudice against minority ethnic physicians should be called out in all its forms

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‘Courage is contagious and we should create a culture within medicine where showing vulnerability is seen for what it truly is-a symbol of strength& reminder that beneath the shackles of titles,accreditations & status, what binds us most strongly is our shared humanity’ www.bmj.com/content/386/...

Courage is contagious: we need to talk about the domestic abuse experienced by female doctors in the NHS

As a survivor of domestic abuse and a doctor, I believe the NHS needs to do more to protect and support staff who experience abuse, says Seema Haider Domestic abuse affects one in four women,1 but li...

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