Healthcare Professional Suicide Risk
High suicide rate among health service professionals, particularly GPs, indicating a need for greater awareness and preventative action.
11 items
1 source
7 inquiries
Source spread
Where this theme appears
Healthcare Professional Suicide Risk has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
11 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (11)
9 — Debrief and support staff
Recommendation: The Chief Executive and Trust Board shall ensure the proper debriefing and support of all staff associated with a serious incident.
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5 — Support systems for child protection staff
Recommendation: Consideration should be given in all agencies where the need is recognised to the provision of an appropriate support system for those engaged in child protection work including those at managerial levels. Senior staff in Social Work Departments and Police …
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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 …
Words of: UK government (Department of Health and Social Care), UK government response to the Covid-19 Inquiry Module 3 report (CP 1664), 14 September 2026
Gov response: The government will work in partnership with NHS organisations, healthcare employers and professional bodies to ensure that a clear and scalable programme of psychological support can be rolled out in the event of a future …
Accepted in part
5 — Consider urgent professional counselling
Recommendation: In devising a Serious Incident Procedure the Chief Executive and Trust Board shall consider the need for urgent professional counselling: – A proportion of individuals within any group is always likely to require psychological support in the aftermath of disaster. …
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4 — Training and services for stress
Recommendation: Consideration should be given to the development of training and services to deal with the levels of stress experienced in work in relation to child sexual abuse (15.18).
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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 …
Words of: UK government (Department of Health and Social Care), UK government response to the Covid-19 Inquiry Module 3 report (CP 1664), 14 September 2026
Gov response: The government agrees that, in the event of a future pandemic, data on healthcare worker deaths plays a vital role in supporting and protecting the workforce as well as improving epidemic surveillance. The government will …
Accepted
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.
Words of: Scottish Government, The Scottish Government's Response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report, section 1.3, 18 June 2015
Gov response: The Scottish Government accepts its responsibility for the failings identified in the report and we apologise unreservedly for the suffering and loss caused. We accept in full all of the report's recommendations.
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 …
Words of: HM Government, Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry (CP 1623), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, 2 July 2026
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
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 …
Words of: HM Government, Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry (CP 1623), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, 2 July 2026
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
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 …
Words of: Department of Health, Learning not blaming (Cm 9113), government response to the Morecambe Bay Investigation and two other reports, July 2015
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 …
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