Emergency workers in grip of growing mental health crisis | Politics | News

Emergency workers face mental health “crisis” as the workload increases and the cost of life pressures. Last year, 11,654 times they contacted the Laura Hyde Foundation, a health mental health charity organization – more than once at average.

More than half (6.199) said that he had suicide thoughts or behaviors. The philanthropy warns that NHS staff, medical students, police officers, firefighters and other front answers are pushed to the point of breaking ”.

The number contained in financial stress has doubled to 1,667 workers. Workload pressures were the most important reason for suicide. Excessive demands in the workplace by 2,111 people were specified.

3,833 of the communications were nurses; 2,004 were medical students, 1.818 was the midwife. More than half were between 18 and 37 years old.

Liam Barnes, titled Foundation, said: “These figures reveal a mental health crisis in our emergency services. We see concern in the idea of ​​suicide due to financial pressure, long working hours, workplace bullying and burnout.

“This raises a serious question: What is the government doing to protect people who protect us? NHS and our emergency workers are the backbone of the country – and they are pushed beyond their borders.

“We should look at our caregivers before the system collapses under the weight of its own negligence.”

The number, which contacted the charity due to the workplace bull, increased from 443 to 917 in 2003 last year.

There has been a major increase in people looking for support due to patient care and grief problems from 886 to 1,423.

A Social and Social Care Department spokesperson said: “These statistics are shocking. Our staff is the backbone of our NHS, and it is very important that the country needs to fulfill their roles in the delivery of the country for up and down patients.

“We have taken lock measures for NHS personnel, including the hard work and devotion of our 1.5 million strong labor force, including inflation wage increases for two consecutive years.

“Thanks to our recent 10 -year health plan, we will provide fast access to mental health support for all NHS employees. And through vital reform and open plan, we reshape our health service to get unnecessary pressures from the staff.”

– Samaritans offers a 24 -hour hidden, listening service that can be reached in 116 123 in the crisis.