A well-being charity with a difference has spent two weeks at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in March, offering NHS staff an opportunity to talk and unwind in their mobile lounge.
Project Wingman was the brain child of two UK airline Captains and a Clinical Psychologist, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Born out of the ashes of the airline industry during lockdown in March 2020, furloughed aircrew visited hospitals to look after NHS workers during their breaks, offering vital wellbeing and mental health support during those stressful times.
The crew draw on their own experiences of working in a high-pressure environment to help others recharge their batteries while grabbing much-needed refreshments.
Bridget O’Kelly, Chief People Officer for the Trust said: “It’s been great to offer colleagues the opportunity to take a break in a space away from their usual, and often high-pressured, working environments. I’d like to thank the Project Wingman crew for their time and support given to our colleagues over the last two weeks.”
CEO Capt. Emma Henderson MBE and co-founder of Project Wingman, added: “It has been an enormous privilege for us, as a group of aircrews, to be a position to recently provide support to Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and to the wider healthcare community for over two years. I am so proud that our mobile lounge, Wingbee, has been able to visit the area with our now infamous tea and empathy service to continue to support and enhance well-being support offered by their trust.”
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