Impact report
Our impact 2025–2026
Promoting and protecting the mental health of doctors and healthcare professionals across the UK. Our report for the year ended 30 June 2026.
The year in numbers
2025–2026 at a glance
- 153confidential support sessions provided
- 94%of attendees felt safe and able to speak openly
- 87%would recommend our sessions to others
- 77%found sessions very or extremely helpful
- 200+doctors completed our CPD-accredited courses
- 45,000staff in NHS trusts signed up to Let’s Prevent Suicide
- 16tree plantings and Suicide Memorial Day events
- 6pieces of policy work
Highlights
What we achieved
Core support
Expert-facilitated peer support sessions ran three times a week, with professional leadership from our partner The Joyful Doctor.
We launched Let’s Prevent Suicide to implement the BSI workplace suicide prevention standard in the NHS, with three Trusts agreeing to take part in the pilot.
Awareness & intervention
Memorial trees now stand across the UK, and we joined NHS Practitioner Health for the second Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers.
New CPD-accredited courses, including Grief in Your Professional Life, reached more than 200 doctors.
Policy & influence
For the first time, we presented evidence in Parliament, to the APPG for Healthcare Workers.
We led 17 organisations calling for NHS Practitioner Health in Northern Ireland, and helped retain health as a category of impairment within the GMC system.
Now, more than ever, Doctors in Distress is needed. There is so much distress and pain out there in the general public and our patients. We have to keep our healthcare professionals working, resilient, able to support the people that are really desperate.
Partnership
Working with Wesleyan
We were delighted to launch a partnership with Wesleyan to support a positive impact on doctors’ mental health. We are grateful to all our funders and partners, whose support makes our work possible.
