ONE in 10 health workers felt suicidal at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic while Tory cronies were raking in huge profits, shocking new research revealed today.

The study, led by the University of Bristol, looked at two surveys of thousands of NHS workers across England in 2020 and 2021 and found that 10.8 per cent had reported experiencing suicidal thoughts, while 2.1 per cent had attempted to take their own life.

A “lack of confidence in raising safety concerns, feeling unsupported by managers, having to provide a lower standard of care and exposure to things that went against people’s moral values” were to blame, the study shows.