What support is there for nurses at risk of taking their own lives?
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What support is there for nurses at risk of taking their own lives?

Pavan Amara Nurse, midwife and health journalist

With nurses more likely than other professionals to die by suicide, support for colleagues in and outside the workplace is key to preventing deaths

Nurses are four times more likely to die by suicide than those working in any other profession in the UK, with female nurses more likely than males to take their own lives.

Mental Health Practice. 26, 6, 6-8. doi: 10.7748/mhp.26.6.6.s2

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