DOCTORS marked today’s World Suicide Prevention Day by warning of the “unimaginable mental health pressures” they face amid Covid-19 and more than a decade of Tory austerity.  

The Doctors’ Association UK said that its members suffer from higher rates of suicide in comparison with the general population, with female doctors in particular up to four times more likely to take their own lives.

But conditions within the NHS are “currently placing our staff under unprecedented pressures and many are struggling to meet the unrealistic demands of the job,” the group warned.