The number of deaths by suicide by doctors in England and Wales

Release date:
27 April 2016

You asked

  1. The number of deaths by suicide by doctors in England and Wales

  2. The age and gender of those doctors in request 1), above

  3. Whether the doctors were hospital doctors or GPs (if this does not exceed the cost limit)

  4. The level of seniority of the doctor at the time of death, e.g. junior doctor (if this does not exceed the cost limit)

We said

Thank you for your query regarding suicide data.

We publish an annual statistical bulletin on suicides in the UK, which is available on our website: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2014registrations

Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: mortality@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Mortality Analysis team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.

As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.

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