This page is offered specifically to provide informational and learning resources for SAS doctors and dentists in NHS Scotland around the COVID-19 pandemic, including redeployment provisions and personal wellbeing and resilience. It will be updated as more resources are made available.
Please contact your SAS Education Adviser or SASDevelopment@nes.scot.nhs.uk for any queries or issues that the SAS Development Programme may be able to assist with, such as wellbeing, training, and working provisions.
We are currently running a series of short webinars for SAS doctors and dentists - please see our Training Calendar page for more details.
General information
The Scotland Deanery COVID-19 web section has a variety of useful documents and FAQs concerning training provisions, leave, revalidation and temporary return to work.
NHS Education for Scotland materials on a variety of topics around COVID-19 are available on Turas Learn. Some specific pages of relevance are also highlighted in links below.
For SAS doctors, the GMC have a dedicated COVID-19 web section with topics including ethical practice, support for the profession, and revalidation.
For SAS dentists, the GDC also have a dedicated COVID-19 web section, with topics including regulation, professional judgement and achieving CPD requirements.
Working patterns and redeployment
The SAS Development team have produced a checklist for NHS Health Boards' induction of SAS that have been temporarily redeployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please click here to view the SAS induction checklist for temporary COVID-19 redeployment.
BMA Scotland guidance for consultants and SAS doctors: changing working patterns in response to the COVID-19 emergency (27 March 2020)
CMO letter: Supporting doctors throughout the second COVID-19 wave (11 November 2020)
Wellbeing and resilience
Please see NHS Education for Scotland's dedicated Turas Learn webpage on mental health and wellbeing support for staff.
The BMA counselling and peer support for doctors features a phone helpline and online support options.
We also would like to highlight the Turas Learn COVID-19 pages on palliative and end-of-life care and death and bereavement care. These cover guidance on self-care and communicating with colleagues in these contexts, as well as interactions with patients and their relatives.
This page was last updated on: 17.11.2020 at 17.47
