Damaged doctors: it’s time for a binding covenant of care between the NHS and its doctors

It is time at last for a binding covenant of care to be drawn up between the NHS and its doctors. In caring for patients in the environment of the NHS, doctors’ health is being damaged, and damaged doctors provide worse care for patients.1–3 For too long the needs of doctors with mental illness or addiction have been neglected. Consequently and tragically, doctors continue to give up their lives for their vocation. The NHS must respond with...