Two Devon hospitals have planted trees in memory of health workers who have lost their lives to suicide.<\/p>\n
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (RD&E) and North Devon District Hospital held tree-planting ceremonies last week to coincide with National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers.<\/p>\n
In the UK, a nurse took their own life every week, while, for doctors, it was once every three weeks, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Dr Vanessa Purday, chief medical officer at the RD&E, said: “Many of us in the NHS will have been affected by the loss of a colleague to suicide, so we hope these trees will allow those who have sadly taken their own lives to be honoured and remembered.”<\/p>\n
She said people working in healthcare were “under enormous pressure every day”, so it was important to support their mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n
The National Memorial Tree Campaign was set up by medical mental health charity Doctors in Distress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Devon hospitals have planted trees in memory of health workers who have lost their lives to suicide.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-39077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}