Mental health

Service disruption may have increased suicides among new mothers

By 2022-11-11T06:40:00

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A new report has highlighted for the first time an apparent rise in the suicide rate for pregnant or newly postpartum women in 2020, citing disruption to NHS services due to covid-19 as a likely cause.

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