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Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden is a British intensive care and pre-hospital doctor.

Medical career

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Batt-Rawden trained at the University of Bristol.[1] She chose to specialise in emergency medicine in 2014, but left the speciality citing burnout and staff shortages, in a BBC Radio 4 documentary she presented.[2] She currently works as a consultant in intensive care medicine and pre-hospital emergency medicine.[3]

Advocacy career

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Batt-Rawden founded The Doctors' Association UK in 2018, following the premature birth of her son at 27 weeks who required a 3 month stay in ICU.[4] She says this experience has made her determined to fight for the NHS.[5] She stepped down from the role in 2021.

She was widely quoted by media during the Bawa-Garba case[6][7][8] and has given evidence to Parliament on creating a just culture in healthcare.[9]

Batt-Rawden was a doctor on Good Morning Britain[10] from 2018-2021 and prior to this was featured on This Morning[11]

Role in the COVID-19 pandemic

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In February 2020, Batt-Rawden was quoted in The Evening Standard as saying that the NHS was not well-prepared for the pandemic.[12] She later raised concerns about inadequate PPE,[13][14][15] a lack of scrubs and poor access to fit testing.[16][17] Batt-Rawden said that staff were being prevented from speaking up about conditions on the frontline, especially in regards to PPE shortages. [18] Batt-Rawden also campaigned to secure a Death in Service benefit for NHS staff[19] and for the Health Service Surcharge to be scrapped. Her letter to the Home Secretary was read in Parliament by Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.[20][21][22]

She has continued to advocate for NHS staff and their wellbeing during the pandemic, stressing that NHS staff will leave at the end of the pandemic if they are not well looked after now.[23][24]

In between the first and second coronavirus wave Batt-Rawden raised concerns in Parliament that lessons not been sufficiently learnt to prevent a resurgence of cases and admissions, in the event of a second wave.[25][26] She gave evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus in September 2020.[27] Batt-Rawden worked with several Royal Colleges campaigning for NHS staff to be prioritised for the vaccine, raising concern about rising staff sickness rates.[28][29][30]

Recently Batt-Rawden has been tackling abuse of NHS staff both on social media and in person.[31][32] This prompted her to start the #NHSblueheart campaign.[33][34]

Since stepping down from the Doctors’ Association UK, Batt-Rawden has continued her peer support work, supporting healthcare workers suffering from trauma during the pandemic and has launched a number of wellbeing initiatives. For this work she was one of three finalists for the Doctor of the Year at the Who Cares Wins awards in 2021.[35]

Research

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Batt-Rawden's research is in the empathy in medical professionals,[36] PTSD[37] and moral injury on which she has published a number of papers, and has given a TEDx talk. In her TEDx talk she also discussed the experience that she had with her son whilst he was in intensive care.[38]

References

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  1. ^ "GMC register".
  2. ^ "My Name Is Sammy". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Independent". Independent. 18 February 2023.
  4. ^ "The woman behind the Doctors' Association UK". The Independent. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Meet The Team - Doctors' Association UK / DAUK". Doctors' Association UK. November 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Struck-off Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba wins appeal to work again". BBC News. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  7. ^ Bunyan, Kat Lay, Health Correspondent | Nigel. "Hadiza Bawa-Garba: Doctor struck off over child's death can return to work". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Doctor struck off over boy's death allowed to return to work". The Guardian. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  9. ^ Robinson, Francesca (18 June 2019). "Learn Not Blame: how a grassroots campaign struck a chord". BMJ. 365: l4232. doi:10.1136/bmj.l4232. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 31213439. S2CID 195066891.
  10. ^ "Doctor defends staff at Alder Hey after Alfie Evans supporters 'target medics'". Metro. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  11. ^ "The Covid deniers putting lives at risk". ITV. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  12. ^ Ackerman, Ross Lydall, Naomi (24 March 2020). "Day in intensive care scared me". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "NHS staff making masks from snorkels amid PPE shortages". The Guardian. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  14. ^ "Medical unions warn UK stock of protective gowns is critically low". The Guardian. 13 April 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  15. ^ O’Neill, Kat Lay Health, Correspondent | Oliver Wright, Policy Editor | Chris Smyth, Sean. "Coronavirus: NHS staff face wearing patient gowns amid PPE shortages". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 February 2021. {{cite news}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "NHS hospitals accused of risking staff lives by forgoing mask fit-tests". The Guardian. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  17. ^ editor, Denis Campbell Health policy (15 June 2020). "Six in 10 NHS doctors facing shortage of scrubs, shows UK survey". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 February 2021. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  18. ^ "NHS staff 'gagged' over coronavirus shortages". The Guardian. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  19. ^ Booth, Robert; Campbell, Denis (29 March 2020). "Concerns over death-in-service benefits keeping doctors from NHS frontline". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  20. ^ Grylls, George. "Coronavirus: Health and care workers to be exempt from NHS charge". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Government forced into U-turn over NHS surcharge for health and care workers | GPonline". www.gponline.com. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  22. ^ "'We feel insulted': migrant health workers on PM's refusal to scrap NHS surcharge". The Guardian. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  23. ^ "More than 1,000 doctors 'want to leave the NHS after pandemic mishandling'". Metro. 6 September 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  24. ^ Duffield, Charlie (11 September 2020). "More than 1,000 doctors 'plan to quit NHS after pandemic mishandling'". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  25. ^ Ackerman, Naomi (24 September 2020). "Doctors fear NHS 'sleepwalking into a second wave' as virus cases grow". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  26. ^ Marsh, Sarah (29 December 2020). "Doctors raise alarm over 'dire' situation in NHS as Covid cases rise". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  27. ^ "Publications". All-Party Group on Coronavirus - Call for Evidence. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  28. ^ Gibbons, Chris Smyth, Whitehall Editor | Tom Ball | Katie. "Doctors told to keep working even if family member is sick". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 February 2021. {{cite news}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  29. ^ Editor, Kat Lay, Health Correspondent | Chris Smyth, Whitehall. "Coronavirus: Tenth of medical staff are thought to have gone sick". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 February 2021. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  30. ^ "Number of key workers getting Covid-19 overtakes positive tests in hospitals". The Guardian. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  31. ^ "The Covid deniers putting lives at risk: Doctors' Association UK President Dr Batt-Rawden speaks out". ITV. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  32. ^ "The doctor who receives 20 to 30 abusive messages a day". BBC News. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  33. ^ "Opinion: Don't 'Clap for Heroes' this lockdown – help the NHS in other ways". The Independent. 9 January 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  34. ^ Molyneaux, Ian (7 January 2021). "Why blue hearts are appearing next to people's names on Twitter". MyLondon. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  35. ^ Ward, Jordan (20 September 2021). "Trust critical care doctor finalist for Doctor of the Year national award". University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  36. ^ Batt-Rawden, Samantha A.; Chisolm, Margaret S.; Anton, Blair; Flickinger, Tabor E. (August 2013). "Teaching empathy to medical students: an updated, systematic review". Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 88 (8): 1171–1177. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e318299f3e3. ISSN 1938-808X. PMID 23807099. S2CID 35862205.
  37. ^ Debell, Frances; Fear, Nicola T.; Head, Marc; Batt-Rawden, Samantha; Greenberg, Neil; Wessely, Simon; Goodwin, Laura (September 2014). "A systematic review of the comorbidity between PTSD and alcohol misuse". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 49 (9): 1401–1425. doi:10.1007/s00127-014-0855-7. ISSN 1433-9285. PMID 24643298. S2CID 22873070.
  38. ^ "TED talks: The Empathy Switch". Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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