Managing healthcare student wellbeing beyond the coronavirus pandemic

Student mental wellbeing has been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. For healthcare students there have been the additional challenges of disrupted university and clinical education experiences as well as directly witnessing the impact of the virus on patients and their families. Government concerns about the future nursing, midwifery and allied health profession (NMAHP) workforce and their retention led to a survey of Scottish healthcare students to establish their need, knowledge and utilisation of wellbeing resources, as well as to ascertain what additional support might be required (and where best to locate this).