Covid-19: More than 60 frontline UK healthcare workers took their own life at the beginning of the pandemic

The Laura Hyde Foundation is calling for 999 workers to sound their sirens at 9am on 9 September in remembrance of their colleagues. More than 60 frontline healthcare workers died of suicide at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, i can reveal. Among the 64 deaths in the first six months of 2020, which included nurses, midwives and paramedics, more than a quarter were newly-qualified workers. The Laura Hyde Foundation (LHF) – a mental health charity for the emergency services – which requested the statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), said the figures were “deeply disturbing”.