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I want to let you know about just some of the work we've been doing @NCISH_UK to improve safety in services during this pandemic. Like many colleagues in suicide prevention, we've made it our priority to do what we can to support services in this most difficult year
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I want to let you know about just some of the work we've been doing @NCISH_UK to improve safety in services during this pandemic. Like many colleagues in suicide prevention, we've made it our priority to do what we can to support services in this most difficult year
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From April we expanded existing support for local areas to include suicide prevention related to COVID-19. Since then our research staff have been regularly quality assessing publications and guidance, highlighting key messages and sending these directly to services UK wide
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We ran interactive webinars with @NCCMentalHealth based on priorities services had told us about, and collated evidence on themes identified from these sessions. You can watch the webinars and access the evidence on our website: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resources/national-academic-response-to-covid-19-related-suicide-prevention/
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We'll pick up the interactive webinar series again when there are substantive themes to update. The next session is likely to be about data. If you want to hear directly about suicide prevention and COVID-19, including any future events, please email [email protected]
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On data - we've set up a "real-time surveillance" study asking mental health trusts in England to tell us about probable suicide deaths under their care; which services the patients were under, and whether COVID was thought to play a part. We're now running our first analysis
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And our usual work programme continues, though of course this too is influenced by the pandemic. We are continuing (with @NCCMentalHealth) to work with local areas to improve their suicide prevention work - now almost all areas of England are in this programme
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Last month we started a new programme of work with colleagues @mashproject and @PSTRC_GM to support local areas to improve their community-based self-harm support; needed now more than ever.
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We've been doing what we can to concentrate our efforts on pandemic-specific suicide prevention. Worth saying that we do already know what can improve safety in mental health services (our core data collection is still ongoing). More on our website:
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/
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https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/
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In a year when we've all been affected by the pandemic, in a thread summarising just some of the ways we've adapted our work programme, a huge thank you to @NCISH_UK staff, working in a new way, sometimes on entirely new challenges. You are so appreciated.
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