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NHS Practitioner Health is a free mental health and addiction service for health and care professionals who are unable to receive confidential treatment through their GP or local services. Now in its 16th year of service, Practitioner Health is the largest publicly funded service of its kind, having treated over 30,000 health and care workers across England and Scotland.
NHS Practitioner Health is dedicated to providing the very best care for its patients. One-one therapy, group therapy, and addiction treatment are provided by expert therapists and clinicians, all of whom specialise in treating health and care professionals. This has ensured that patient recovery rates from anxiety and depression are upwards of 90%, and 70% of addiction patients maintaining long-term abstinence.
Key Facts/Findings: 2024/2025
- 6339 total registrations
- Top 3 professions: Secondary Care Doctor 50%, General Practitioner 39%, Nurse 4%.
- Gender split: 71% female, 29% male.
- Average GAD7 score of patients with anxiety reduced by 8.01 between registration and completion of treatment – 12.76 -> 4.74
- Average PHQ9 score of patients with depression reduced by 8.23 between registration and completion of treatment. 13.25 -> 5.02
- 11% of patients accessing Practitioner Health are not in work at time of registration. More than 800 patients returned to the workforce following treatment.
- 1 in 3 health and care professionals who registered with NHS Practitioner Health in 2024/25 disclosed experiencing suicidal thoughts or plans.
Download our annual report here
National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers – 17th September
NHS Practitioner Health launched this national Memorial Day in 2024 with the charity Doctors in Distress as an opportunity to remember the health and care workers we have lost to suicide. Further details here.
Press Coverage
- ‘GPs urged to ‘check-in’ with colleagues facing mental health struggles’, Pulse, 17 September 2025
- ‘Mental health service for NHS staff reveals scale of suicidal ideation’, GP Online, 16 September 2025
- ‘Where NHS Doctors Turn for Burnout Support’, Medscape, 1 September 2025
- ‘Doctors seeking help with mental health ‘should be screened for ADHD’’, GPOnline, 18 February 2025
- ‘This can’t go on’, the doctor, 18 February 2025
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- For press, media, or communications related enquires, please contact the communications team at ph.commsteam@nhs.net.
- For general enquires, please contact prachealth@nhs.net.
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NHS Practitioner Health
Riverside Medical Centre
Hobart House
St George Wharf
London
SW8 2JB
Telephone: 0300 0303 300
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