25/10/06 - Guidance on suicide prevention

The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP), on behalf of the DH, has produced Guidance on action to be taken at suicide hotspots. This best practice guidance aims to support the development of effective collaboration by local multi-agency suicide prevention groups in identifying particular places within their local area that are 'hotspots' for suicide. In addition to this guidance the CSIP have also produced Suicide audit in primary care trust localities: a tool to support population-based audit of suicides and open verdicts. This toolkit is designed to assist PCTs in establishing a system for collecting relevant information on suicides to inform local, regional and national suicide prevention strategies. The toolkit also comes with a data collection pro forma. To supplement this toolkit they have also published Suicide audit in primary care trust localities: a whole systems approach, which aims to provide guidance on how to undertake a whole systems approach to suicide audit within a PCT in order to improve clinical practice.

(National Institute for Mental Health in England - news & events) [DH press release]