Moral distress and moral injury: recognising and tackling it for UK doctors

Moral distress and moral injury: recognising and tackling it for UK doctors This pan-profession survey report of UK doctors survey found that 78 per cent of respondents said they could identify with the term ‘moral distress’. This can be understood as occurring when ‘institutional and resource constraints create a sense of unease among doctors from being conflicted about the quality of care they can give’. British Medical Association