Improving Staff Wellbeing in a Community Mental Health Team: A Six-Week Mindfulness-Based Quality Improvement Project
BJPsych Open June 1, 2026 H. Kay, Emmalene Fish
Aims: Staff working in community mental health teams (CMHTs) experience high levels of occupational stress and burnout, which can impact wellbeing, staff retention, and quality of patient care. Mindfulness-based approaches have demonstrated benefit for stress reduction, but their implementation within routine psychiatric services for NHS staff remains limited. Aims were to improve wellbeing and...