Nathan Gower
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 8 Jul
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I spoke to Professor Annette Yechler from the University of Essex.
She's an expert in survey design.
She said there were some red flags indicating that respondents struggled to answer this question.
Remember, the question asked about colleagues in their region who had taken their own life due to work pressures.
Well, maybe you're not sure what the definition of a region is, or maybe you know someone who took their own life, but you've got no idea whether it's due to work pressures or not.
But there is also a much bigger issue.
Exactly.
You can't reverse engineer the raw number from the survey number.
This survey just doesn't tell us very much at all.
We do.
The Office for National Statistics compiles numbers on suicide rates by occupation in England.
Unfortunately, the most recent data only covers 2011 to 2015, so it is nearly 10 years out of date, but there will be a new analysis next year.
The data doesn't isolate GPs specifically.
They're too small a group to generate a reliable rate.
But the best category we can look at is one called medical practitioners.
So this refers to doctors of all kinds, but not nurses or midwives.
You have to split it out into the rates for men and women.
That's because suicide rates for men generally are much higher than for women.
For male doctors, the rate of suicide is about a third lower than men of working age generally.
For female doctors, it's almost exactly the same as the working age female population.
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