How do we best support our early year consultant vascular surgeons?

The first few years of your consultant career can be a lonely space place, with the pressure to prove yourself in an NHS which is struggling for resources and demanding ever more from its workforce. The data from the survey published in this issue of the JVSGBI highlight the urgent need to place the well-being of our younger colleagues centre stage and to produce tangible, sustainable long-term solutions. The factors contributing to burnout, post-traumatic syndrome disorder (PTSD) and imposter syndrome are complex and multifactorial, but supporting our colleagues through complaints and complications, tackling bullying, undermining and harassment (BUH) and improving the shortfalls in our working environment, such as poor staffing and the burgeoning waiting lists, will go a long way to alleviate the distress described in this survey.