The NHS England workforce has now launched their strategy to try and stop people from committing suicide in the NHS. If you currently work in the NHS then you will know how important mental health support is. The unfortunate reality if you work in a nurse agency or if you work in a nursing recruitment agency is that people are not given the help that they need. This is leading to carers and those who work in care jobs, committing suicide. The toolkit has been created to try and embed good practice across the healthcare service. This is going to pull together resources from well over two dozen support services. It is also going to mean that mental health charities are able to support staff who may have had a colleague die as the result of suicide.

When you look at the resources for organisational leaders, you will see that the toolkit offers guides for managers. It tells them how to respond to people who are showing warning signs and it also helps them to spot people who may be at risk. Dame Ruth May has come out to say that the resources are ideal at helping to mitigate staff as well as helping them to get the support they need across the board. The challenges that the NHS is facing right now are great, and some may even say that they are relentless. That being said, more has to be done to make sure that people are given help if they feel overwhelmed to stop suicides from happening going forward. This is the only way to make sure that people are not feeling like suicide is the only way out for them, and that there is in fact a light at the end of the tunnel.