About the Sick Doctors Trust

The Trust was established in 1996 by a group of doctors who were themselves recovering from addictions and were concerned at the lack of effective arrangements for helping others who found themselves in difficulty as a result of alcohol or drug use.

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Addicted doctors are a source of potential harm to themselves and their patients. Only by identifying and engaging such doctors can that harm be reduced. The punitive disciplinary model currently in operation hinders this.

Sir Liam Donaldson
Good Doctors, Safer Patients