Wu previously raised awareness of the "second victim phenomenon," whereby HCWs experience serious functional impairment, with some leaving their profession and a few committing suicide. 1 During its annual conference in November, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO), passed a motion asking that suicides by HCWs while undergoing investigations should be treated as a "never event." The US poet and physician Williams Carlos Williams described a doctor as "one upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well," and the way things are in the NHS many HCWs can identify with this. ...creating this new never event will go some way towards supporting HCWs and a long way towards improving patient safety.