Claim: More than 60 frontline UK healthcare workers took their own life at the beginning of the pandemic.
Fact-check: New figures on healthcare workers' suicides should be treated with caution - Full Fact
Verdict: this data was on deaths by suicide registered in england and wales in the first half of 2020, we don't know how many happened in that year.. the majority of all deaths by suicides registered in the first half of 2020 actually happened before the year began.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2021-09-10T00:00:00