GPs get £20m scheme to help them cope with stress

Counselling and treatment for mental health issues to be offered, in the hope of boosting UK retention in the professionFamily doctors with heavy workloads are to receive specialist help to cope with the stress of their jobs in a groundbreaking new NHS initiative.All 55,000 GPs in England will be able to seek counselling or medication from mental health nurses and psychiatrists in a £20m scheme to keep them healthy. The NHS GP Health Service will be trialled in 13 areas and then rolled out