Healthcare Professional Suicide Risk
High suicide rate among health service professionals, particularly GPs, indicating a need for greater awareness and preventative action.
7 items
1 source
5 inquiries
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Where this theme appears
Healthcare Professional Suicide Risk has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
7 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (7)
COVID-M3.10 — Healthcare Worker Support
Recommendation: The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, working with healthcare employers and professional bodies, should put in place plans to deliver effective support for healthcare workers at scale from the outset of a pandemic. Plans should …
Gov response: No formal response published by this government.
Unknown
COVID-M3.8 — Recording Healthcare Worker Deaths
Recommendation: The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with their respective public health agencies and healthcare employers to develop nation-specific mechanisms to collect, analyse and publish data systematically on the deaths of healthcare workers in …
Gov response: No formal response published by this government.
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R36 — Medical staffing levels
Recommendation: Health Boards should ensure that the level of medical staffing planned and provided is sufficient to provide safe high-quality care.
Gov response: Section 4.1 of the Scottish Government's response addresses the need for appropriate levels of medical staff to provide safe, high-quality care. It states a full commitment to planning an NHS workforce that delivers high-quality services, …
Accepted
SP35 — Balancing vulnerability with professional curiosity
Recommendation: Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review and where necessary strengthen the training that Counter Terrorism officers involved in Prevent already receive to ensure that they understand the importance of balancing concern for an individual’s vulnerability with appropriate professional curiosity and …
Gov response: The Home Office is supporting CTP to make changes in relation to recommendations 32, 33 and 35 (2). These changes will improve case officers' ability to understand and assess the online activity of individuals referred …
Accepted
In progress
SP34 — Neurodiversity training for Prevent practitioners
Recommendation: Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review its neurodiversity training for Prevent practitioners (including, where appropriate, drawing in wider healthcare advice) to ensure that they sufficiently equip practitioners with a proper understanding of: 1. How autism may influence risk in the …
Gov response: The internal strategic policy review of mental ill-health and neurodivergence in Prevent also includes recommended improvements to policy and training. The findings from this review will complement work by CTP in relation to recommendation 34 …
Accepted
In progress
BRIS-103 — Royal College of Surgeons to develop training and explore surgeon age limits
Recommendation: The Royal College of Surgeons of England should, in partnership with university medical schools and the NHS, be enabled to develop its unit for the training of surgeons, particularly in new techniques. It should also explore the question of whether …
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4 — Establish continuing professional development requirements
Recommendation: Following completion of additional training or experience where necessary, the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should identify requirements for continuing professional development of staff and link this explicitly with professional requirements including revalidation. This should be completed …
Gov response: [A] Recommendations for the Trust Recommendations for the Trust: 1-18 1. The Morecambe Bay Investigation found that there were serious failures in clinical care at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, causing avoidable harm …
Accepted