Welcome to ‘Top priorities for

your local suicide prevention

plan’

We will begin the webinar promptly at 12pm

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Chair’s welcome & introduction

Brian Dow, NSPA Co-Chair and Director of

External Affairs, Rethink Mental Illness

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National priorities and evidence

for action

Professor Louis Appleby, Professor of

Psychiatry, University of Manchester and Chair,

National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group

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Professor Louis Appleby

Director, National Confidential

Inquiry

Chair, National Suicide Prevention

Strategy (England)

Age-standardised suicide rates,

England 2000-2015

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10

12

14

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18

20

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20

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20

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20

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20

14

20

15

Males

Females

Persons

Source: ONS

National Suicide Prevention Strategy 2012:

• Reduce risk in high risk groups

• Tailor approaches to improve mental health in

specific groups

• Reduce access to the means of suicide

• Support for those bereaved by suicide

• Support media in delivering sensitive

approaches to suicide

• Support research, data collection and monitoring

Six actions

• Local suicide prevention

plans

• Self-harm

• Middle-aged men, mental

health patients, prisoners

• Better data

• Bereavement support

Local priorities

• Men

• Self-harm

• Acute mental health care

• Depression in primary care

• Children and young people

• High frequency locations

• Isolation

• Bereavement support

Age-specific suicide rate, 2015, England

0

5

10

15

20

25

Males

Females

Source: ONS

Percentage of population who report self-harm

Source: NatCen 2016

Suicide under crisis teams (CRHT), England

108

153

156

177187

207

178

193191

207

183

162155

142

122

104 10092

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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er

of

pat

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ts

Year

CRHT In-patient

• 3x as many suicides

under CRHT as in in-

patients

• ⅓ under CRHT for <1

week

• ⅓ recently discharged

from hospital

Source: NCI

UK_SUICIDE

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Suicide risk & number of GP consultations in

previous 12 months

12.3

7.8

1.67

• Suicide linked

to frequent GP

consultation

• 12-fold increase

with attendance

x 2 per month

• Risk also high

in non-

attenders

National study of teenage suicide

Source: The Lancet Psychiatry, Rodway et al, 2016

• Linked to suicide

bereavement, isolation,

exams

• Suicide-related internet

use in 23%

• No service contact in

43%

Proportion of suicides by sex and method,

England

56%

18%

26%

Males

Hanging

Poisoning

Other

42%

35%

23%

Females

Source: ONS

Suicide prevention at hotspots

• Barriers

• Helplines

• Intervention/patrols

• Local media

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-suicides-in-public-places

UK_SUICIDE

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Sensationalising andromanticising suicide

Support for bereaved families

• Help is at Hand

• How to commission

and deliver

bereavement support

• Consensus statement on

balance of confidentiality

and disclosure of risk

Q&A Session

Submit your questions via the Q&A panel at the

bottom right of your screen

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Supporting local suicide

preventionHelen Garnham, National Programme Manager,

Public Health England

Rosie Ellis, Manager, National Suicide Prevention

Alliance

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Local Suicide Prevention Planning Guidance

#PHELGBT Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Lesbian, Gay,

Bisexual and Trans People and Communities

First published October 2014

NEW version October 2016

Guidance to

• build a partnership approach

• make sense of local and national

data

• develop a suicide prevention strategy and

action plan

PHE’s suite of resources

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• Updated guidance for developing a local suicide prevention action plan

• Suicide prevention data and intelligence profiles

• Suicide Prevention Atlas – launched 9/1/17

• Prevention of suicides in public places

• Responding to potential suicide clusters

• Preventing suicide among lesbian, gay and bisexual young people

• Preventing suicide among trans young people

• ‘Help is at Hand’ bereavement support after suicide

• Support after a suicide: a guide to providing local services

• Support after suicide: a guide to developing, delivering and evaluation

local services

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/suicide-prevention-

resources-and-guidance

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Cross-sector national suicide prevention alliance

We work with our members to:

Reduce stigma

Encourage help-seeking

Right support at the right time

Reduce access to means of suicide

Reduce impact of suicide

Improve data & evidence

Encourage collaboration

Co-create, influence, share intelligence & learning

Who we are

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Collaboration saves lives

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Guidance available on the NSPA website

Expanding content and case studies

Resources hub

Directory of services

Connecting people and organisations

Supporting regional network development

Events programme

Next steps supporting local action

Any final questions

Submit your questions via the Q&A panel at the

bottom right of your screen

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A personal perspective on suicide

(film)

Jonny Benjamin, Mental Health Campaigner & Film

Producer

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Chair’s closing comments

Brian Dow, NSPA Co-Chair and Director of

External Affairs, Rethink Mental Illness

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