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Sources of GP Support

  • Cameron Fund
  • LMC Conciliation Service
  • Somerset LMC Benevolent Fund
  • LMC Leaflet on Emotional Wellbeing
  • BMA Website
    BMA Doctors for Doctors Advisory Service and BMA Counselling Service: 24h support with immediate access to trained counselors (for BMA members and their families), 08459 200 169
  • Sick Doctors Trust
  • BMA Charities
    Financial Assistance to doctors and their dependents, whether BMA members or not, to students studying medicine as a second degree and to refugee doctors, 020 7383 6142, 020 7383 6334
  • British Doctors and Dentists Group
    Provides venues for doctors and dentists recovering from substance abuse to meet for mutual and entirely confidential support and encouragement, 0870 444 5163, 020 7487 4445, 0845 920 0169
  • Doctors' Support Network (DSN)
    Self-help group for doctors with mental illness,PO Box 360, Stevenage, SG1 9AS. Tel: 0870 321 0642. DSN has a Doctors' Support Line staffed by trained volunteer doctors. This provides a confidential and anonymous service for doctors for both professional and personal concerns. 0870 765 0001
  • Sick Doctors Trust
    Early intervention and treatment for doctors addicted to alcohol or other drugs. Help with recovery and rehabilitation for affected colleagues and their families, 0870444 5163
  • Royal Medical Benevolent Fund
    Financial and other assistance to doctors and their dependents, 020 8540 9194
  • Royal Medical Foundation
    Financial and other assistance to doctors and their dependents, 01372 821011, Email: caseworker@royalmedicalfoundation.org
  • The Cameron Fund
    Relief of poverty, hardship and distress of GPs and their dependents, 020 7388 0796, Email: secretary@cameronfund.org.uk
  • Samaritans
    08457 90 90 90, Email: jo@samaritans.org
  • Dovedale Counselling
    National Provider of confidential counseling services for healthcare professional(contracted by Berks and Oxon but not Bucks PCTs), 0800 214 307
  • Bucks PCT Occupational Health
    (1) Wycombe Hospital, Queen Alexander Rd, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 2TT, 01494 425082 (2) Manor House, 6 Manor House Close, Bierton Rd, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 1EG, 01296 504 473
  • East Berkshire PCT, Occupational Health Service. Wexham Park Hospital, Wexham St, Slough, Berks, SLH2 4HL, Tel: 01753 633000, Fax: 01753 634848
  • West Berks PCT, Occupational Health Service, Royal Berks Hospital NHS Trust, 21 Craven Rd, Reading, Berks, RG1 5LE, Tel: 0118 987 7634, Fax: 0118 987 8778
  • Milton Keynes PCT
    Occupational Health Department, MK General Hospital, Eaglestone, Standing Way, Milton Keynes, MK6 5LD, 01908 243609