A personal perspective from the UK: ageing and psychiatrists

作者：Benbow Susan Mary^*

来源：Australasian Psychiatry, 2016, 24(2): 131-133.

DOI：10.1177/1039856215620026

• new ways of working
• retirement
• support networks

Objective: Psychiatrists appointed to National Health Service (NHS) consultant posts in the United Kingdom before a specific date in 1995 qualified for early retirement and this has implications for workforce planning.
Methods: The author reflects on the implications this has for ageing psychiatrists and for relationships between psychiatrists and patients and families using mental health services, from the perspective of a psychiatrist who took advantage of the opportunity to retire early from a consultant post in the NHS and to develop a new career.
Results: Older psychiatrists continuing to practise after retirement from consultant roles may bring disadvantages and advantages.
Conclusions: Older psychiatrists may be a valuable resource for future mental health services, and they may be in a position to try out new ways of working which might be relevant to their younger colleagues in the uncertain future faced by mental health services at a time of austerity.

• 出版日期2016-4