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Attribution. Ruth Riley; Johanna Spiers; Hilary Causer; Jill Maben; Carolyn Chew-Graham; Nikolaos Efstathiou et al. (2025). Evidence of the impact on and views of NHS staff following a colleague’s suicide to inform postvention guidance: a multi-methods study. National Institute for Health and Care Research. Copyright © 2025 Riley et al. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. NCBI Bookshelf NBK618833. CC BY 4.0. Original source ↗. Text reproduced from the Bookshelf XML without changing wording; figures, images and supplements are not reproduced.

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