World Suicide Prevention Day 2023: Improving workplace communication and connectedness

Over 700,000 people die due to suicide every year, according to the World Health Organisation, and as many as 650 suicides each year in the UK could be work related, the Hazards Campaign found, representing around 10% of all suicides. Factors that can increase the risk of suicide include serious mental health and physical health conditions, environmental factors such as harassment, bullying, and relationship problems, as well as life events such as unemployment, divorce and financial crisis, according to nurse-led health and wellbeing support service RedArc. Although these aren't stan...