Moral injury in healthcare workers

Prof. Neil Greenberg
Professor Neil Greenberg discusses the concept of 'moral injury' as a result of working in difficult circumstances - and how to manage it.
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It is imperative that healthcare organisations be aware of the wealth of evidence that exists about how to protect the mental health of staff carrying out psychologically risky roles.

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Professor Neil Greenberg
Professor of Defence Mental Health

BM, BSc, MMedSc, FHEA, MFMLM, DOccMed, MInstLM, MEWI, MFFLM, MD, FRCPsych Professor Neil Greenberg is a consultant academic, occupational and forensic psychiatrist based at King's College London. He served in the United Kingdom Armed Forces for more than 23 years and has deployed, as a psychiatrist and researcher, to a number of hostile environments including Afghanistan and Iraq. At King's, Neil leads on a number of military mental health projects and is a principal investigator within a nationally funded Health Protection Research unit. He also chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) Special Interest Group in Occupational Psychiatry. Neil has published more than 250 scientific papers and book chapters and has been the Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. Neil also runs March on Stress which is a psychological health consultancy and during 2020 has been part of the NHS England and Improvement Wellbeing Team.