FOI reference: FOI-2025-2936
You asked
I am looking for information on how many healthcare employees (NHS) have died by suicide this year and how this trend compares with previous years. Can this please be compared with the overall population?
We said
Thank you for your request.
We have published the annual numbers of deaths due to suicides covering the years 1981 to 2023 in the Suicides in England and Wales dataset. We have also produced ad-hoc user requested data relating to suicides by occupation including Suicide by occupation, England and Wales, 2011 to 2021 registrations and Suicide by occupation in England and Wales: 2023 and 2024, provisional.
If this does not meet your needs, we can create a custom output. Information on numbers of deaths due to suicide in the healthcare professions along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order, subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs in line with our Charging Policy. Please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk for more information.