{"id":155467,"date":"2025-09-23T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155467\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:23:21","slug":"devon-hospitals-plant-trees-for-colleagues-lost-to-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155467\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon hospitals plant trees for colleagues lost to suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two Devon hospitals have planted trees in memory of health workers who have lost their lives to suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (RD&amp;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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Vanessa Purday, chief medical officer at the RD&amp;E, said: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Devon hospitals have planted trees in memory of health workers who have lost their lives to suicide.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-155467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}