Mental wellbeing
It’s natural to feel anxious and stressed during times of uncertainty however there are many resources available to help us maintain good mental wellbeing, including Public Health England's Every Mind Matters.
- Every Mind Matters: you'll find advice on maintaining your mental wellbeing whilst staying at home here and 10 tips to help if you're worried about coronavirus here.
- MIND: plenty of advice for taking care of your mental health and wellbeing, including a checklist for staying at home, can be found here.
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Mental Health Foundation: this poster contains 6 tips to look after your mental health and wellbeing whilst at home.
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Daily stress and trauma management: a new service called COVID Calm is available for health care professionals to receive support on daily stress and trauma management from experienced trainers. To find out more visit the COVID Calm website here.
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Home working in extraordinary circumstances:this free 25 minute course includes tips on homeworking, health and safety considerations and videos on mindfulness, depression and mental wellbeing.
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Royal College of Occupational Therapists: you'll find 10 top tips from the RCOT for staying well when social distancing here.
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Mental health hotline for staff tackling COVID-19: 
NHS England has set up a new staff support hotline and text messaging service to help staff manage their wellbeing - find out more here. You may also find the digital mental health platform SilverCloud helpful - find out more here.
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Feeling stressed, anxious or low in mood?
Keeping Well is a free, confidential psychological support service run by care professionals for care professionals, in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.
To get help quickly, visit www.keepingwellblmk.nhs.uk or call:
Bedfordshire: 01234 880 400
Luton: 0300 555 4152
Milton Keynes: 01908 725 099
More details can be found here.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub for Health and Social Care Staff - BLMK
Free counselling support for frontline NHS workers
The NHS has partnered with local charity Relate Cambridgeshire to provide counselling to health and social care staff and volunteers across the whole of the Cambridgeshire region. The partnership will support those who are facing relationship challenges due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, through funded counselling sessions, delivered by relationship experts Relate Cambridgeshire. Find out more here.