Nursing can be physically and emotionally demanding, but seeing that the care you have provided has resulted in improvement of health, recovery or reduced suffering is incredibly satisfying. For some countries, such as Germany, working hours have continued their steep historical decline; while for other countries, such as the US, the decline has leveled off in recent decades.

Department of Health. Preventing suicide in England: A cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives (2012) ↩ The aim of IAPT is to provide evidenced based treatment at a level appropriate to an individual’s condition. In 2015 to 2016 almost 1 million people in England entered IAPT treatment with almost half moving to recovery (according to a range of clinical measures which monitor symptom frequency and severity) [footnote 20]. Bower P, Gilbody S. Stepped care in psychological therapies: access, effectiveness and efficiency. The British Journal of Psychiatry (2005)186:11-7 ↩ Crisp N, Smith G, Nicholson K, (Eds). Old Problems, New Solutions: Improving Acute Psychiatric Care for Adults in England. Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care (2016) ↩ ↩ 2Although progress towards real and sustained care sector reform remains challenging, the voice of adult social work has a powerful and constructive role to play, not least in how our practice can be used to provide enhanced support to those who need it most. Besides tech innovation, there is evidence that working fewer hours can itself keep productivity higher, making the link between working hours and productivity self-reinforcing. For example, economist John Pencavel (2015) studied munitions workers in war-time Britain and found that their productivity stayed high up to a certain threshold of hours, but declined markedly above that threshold. 15 We’ve probably all experienced the drop in productivity that comes at the end of a very long day of work. What we learn from this

The available data shows that in the 19th century people across the world used to work extremely long hours, but in the last 150 years working hours have decreased substantially, particularly in today’s richest countries. Working hours per worker have declined after the Industrial Revolution The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health [footnote 19] and subsequent implementation guidance [footnote 21] set out new ambitions for the delivery of services for CMHPs: We explore the differences in working hours between similar, highly productive countries — and also the differences within those countries — in forthcoming posts.Care Quality Commission. Right here, right now: people’s experiences of help, care and support during a mental health crisis (2015) ↩ ↩ 2 Find out more about the different kinds of work experience and internships that are available. Employers Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network. Information about what Psychiatric Liaison Teams do Royal College of Psychiatrists. ↩ In part, this can be explained by official changes to the age at which you are expected to stay on in education – in 2015, this changed to 18 for students in England. However, the main explanation is the big increase in the number of people choosing to remain in education beyond age 18. Around a third of 18-year-olds now go to university (PDF, 1.4MB), compared with a quarter in 2006. Available at: Huberman, M. and Minns, C. (2007). The times they are not changin’: Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870–2000. Explorations in Economic History.