Suicide and self-harm

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1. Jay’s Personalised Safety Planning Toolkit: A guide to support meaningful safety planning for self-harm and suicide

   • Self harm/ suicide
   • Mental health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 20 May

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   • 20 May

2. Health Service Executive: Reducing ligature risks from plastic bags (23 April 2026)

   • Mental health
   • Mental health unit
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Mental health unit
     • Self harm/ suicide

   By Mark Hughes, 11 May

   • 0 comments
   • 375 views
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   • 11 May

3. Making sense after a suicide: living with blame, uncertainty, and the need for answers. You are not alone (Making Families Count)

   • Patient / family support
   • Self harm/ suicide

   By Patient Safety Learning, 13 January

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   • 331 views
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   • 13 January

4. Built to Harm: how women's prisons take lives (Inquest, 3 December 2025)

   • Prison
   • Womens health
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     • Prison
     • Womens health
     • Self harm/ suicide

   By Mark Hughes, 5 December, 2025

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   • 496 views
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   • 5 December, 2025

5. Role of pharmacists in supporting children and young people who self-harm (2 September 2025)

   • Self harm/ suicide
   • Children and Young People
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     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Children and Young People
     • Pharmacist

   By Patient Safety Learning, 4 September, 2025

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   • 4 September, 2025

6. Participation invitation: Strengthening primary prevention in substance use

   • Self harm/ suicide
   • Research
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Research
     • Public health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 July, 2025

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   • 299 views
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   • 22 July, 2025

7. Staying safe from suicide: Best practice guidance for safety assessment, formulation and management (NHS England, 4 April 2025)

   • Self harm/ suicide
   • Assessment
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Assessment
     • Mental health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 July, 2025

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   • 18 July, 2025

8. Rapid Response: Justice or misunderstanding? Suicide, complexity, and the price of certainty (BMJ, 12 June 2025)

   • Mental health
   • Self harm/ suicide
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Health and safety
     • Patient death

   By Patient Safety Learning, 20 June, 2025

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   • 20 June, 2025

9. Rethinking suicide prevention: from prediction to understanding (19 May 2025)

   • Self harm/ suicide
   • Mental health
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Self harm/ suicide
     • Mental health
     • Research

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 June, 2025

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   • 12 June, 2025

10. Understanding the true impact of suicide in inpatient mental health settings: reflections from a psychiatrist (22 April 2025)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Investigation
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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Investigation
      • Organisational culture
      • Patient / family support
      • Staff support

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 22 April, 2025

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    • 22 April, 2025

11. National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health Annual Report 2025: UK patient and general population data 2012-2022 (February 2025)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Mental health
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health
      • Research

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 13 February, 2025

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    • 3,087 views
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    • 13 February, 2025

12. Reducing the risk of self-harm in inpatient mental health settings

    • Patient safety strategy
    • Self harm/ suicide
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Patient safety strategy
      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health
      • Advice

    By Anonymous, 29 November, 2024

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    • 1,405 views
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    • 29 November, 2024

13. Virtual mental health care and suicide-related events (5 November 2024)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Mental health
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health
      • Telemedicine

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 November, 2024

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    • 465 views
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    • 15 November, 2024

14. National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health: Annual report 2024 (8 February 2024)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Mental health
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health
      • Data
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 26 February, 2024

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    • 1,350 views
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    • 26 February, 2024

15. Qualitative study investigating the professional and personal effects of patient suicide on general practitioners in Northern Ireland (10 February 2024)

    • Staff safety
    • Staff support
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Staff safety
      • Staff support
      • Primary care
      • GP
      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health
      • Qualitative

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 26 February, 2024

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    • 725 views
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    • 26 February, 2024

16. Primary care consultation patterns prior to suicide: a nationally representative case-control study (8 February 2024)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • GP
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • GP
      • Consultation
      • Risk management
      • Mental health
      • Primary care

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 23 February, 2024

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    • 855 views
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    • 23 February, 2024

17. Perinatal depression and risk of mortality: nationwide, register based study in Sweden (BMJ, 10 January 2024)

    • Maternity
    • Pregnancy
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Maternity
      • Pregnancy
      • Mental health
      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Research
      • Depression

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 January, 2024

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    • 812 views
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    • 10 January, 2024

18. Suicide prevention strategy: action plan (DHSC, 11 September 2023)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Patient safety strategy

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 September, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 1,227 views
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    • 11 September, 2023

19. Report - Moving towards a zero suicide society: How far can we go? (The Jordan Legacy, July 2023)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Mental health
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health
      • Engagement
      • Collaboration

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 August, 2023

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    • 668 views
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    • 16 August, 2023

20. National confidential inquiry into suicide and safety in mental health (HQIP, 9 March 2023)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Mental health
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health
      • Audit
      • Data
      • UK

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 26 April, 2023

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    • 868 views
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    • 26 April, 2023

21. Psychosocial assessment following self-harm: A clinician’s guide (November 2022)

    • Psychological safety
    • Mental health
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Psychological safety
      • Mental health
      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Assessment

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 November, 2022

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    • 14 November, 2022

22. Suicide prevention: Evidence-informed interventions for the health care workforce (American Hosptial Association, October 2022)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • USA
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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • USA
      • Staff safety
      • Staff support
      • Workforce management
      • Mental health

    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 October, 2022

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    • 866 views
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    • 12 October, 2022

23. Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence (NICE, 7 September 2022)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Recommendations
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Recommendations
      • Mental health
      • Learning disabilities
      • Primary care

    By Patient Safety Learning, 7 September, 2022

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    • 7 September, 2022

24. Suicide risk for terminally ill people more than double general population, ONS data indicates (20 April 2022)

    • Self harm/ suicide
    • Patient death
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Patient death
      • Data

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 21 April, 2022

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    • 1,467 views
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    • 21 April, 2022

25. Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation: double blind, randomised placebo controlled trial (2 February 2022)

    • Mental health
    • Prescribing
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Prescribing
      • Self harm/ suicide
      • Mental health unit
      • Patient
      • Mental health - adult
      • Medication
      • Europe

    By Steve Turner, 8 February, 2022

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    • 1,964 views
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    • 8 February, 2022