FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3145
You asked
Please supply the figures for the suicides reported within UK ambulance services for the following years:
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We are responsible for producing mortality statistics for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. Northern Ireland Statistical Research Agency (NISRA) and National Records Scotland (NRS) are responsible for collation of their mortality statistics. Therefore, we do not hold the requested data for the whole of the UK. Should you wish to obtain this data from NRS and NISRA, they can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
We have produced ad hoc analysis on Suicide by occupation, England and Wales, 2011 to 2020 registrations. These datasets provide an insight into suicides by different occupational groups.
Data on occupation is coded using the Standard Occupation Classification (SOC 2010). In all, there are 9 major groups of occupations (for example, skilled trades occupations); 25 sub-major groups (for example, skilled construction and building trades); 90 minor groups (for example, building finishing trades); and more than 350 individual occupations (for example, painters and decorators). Full lists of occupations used in the analysis are reported in the accompanying data tables, and descriptions of these can be found in ONS Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Hierarchy. The report is structured so that it describes larger categories of occupations before moving on to describe risk in specific occupations.
There are multiple occupation groups codes attributed to professions:
In table 2 you will find a breakdown of suicides for sub-major occupation groups by sex, health professionals.
Table 3 contains suicides for minor occupation groups by sex, health professionals.
If you are looking for a specific health professional occupation, please look at at table 4. This table contains individual annual figures for ambulance staff (Row 6142) and paramedics (Row 3213).
For more information on this request, email health.data@ons.gov.uk.