Heartbeat: Wellbeing duo to ensure voices are heard

February 4, 2022

Congratulations to Dr Huma Naqvi and Dr Vikranth Venugopalan who have recently been appointed as joint senior medical staff wellbeing leads.

The duo will be critical in driving the wellbeing agenda for our senior medical colleagues and ensure voices get heard.

Huma and Vikranth are delighted and honoured with their new roles so we decided to catch up with them to find out more.

Vikranth explained: “Huma and I are the strategic leads for ensuring the health and wellbeing of the senior medical staff including consultants, associate specialists and SAS doctors. This is a very important role as it provides a pastoral service for senior medical colleagues.

“Our aim is to improve the wellbeing of senior medical colleagues,” added Huma.

“Looking at the year ahead we want to ensure colleagues are aware of the wellbeing offer provided in our workplace and we also want to increase colleague engagement with wellbeing activities.”

Huma and Vikranth told Heartbeat they most look forward to engaging effectively with the senior medical body to improve their overall wellbeing as well as being that ‘voice’ for the group and ultimately help reduce burnout rates.

Commenting on Huma and Vikranth’s appointments Sarb Clare, AMU Consultant and Deputy Medical Director said: “The recruitment panel was really pleased and impressed with Huma and Vikranth’s passion and insights into what is needed and the how.

“They will be critical in driving the wellbeing agenda for our senior medical colleagues and ensure voices get heard – in particular during these challenging times as we work through recovery, continue to deal with COVID-19 and progress our move into MMUH.

“This is a new role and we are looking forward to being an exemplar for other organisations on how investing in our senior medical body wellbeing is critical in caring for our colleagues who care for our patients. This is a jigsaw piece of the SWB wider strategy on staff wellbeing.”