Previous studies examining which parts of mental health service provision are most effective in preventing suicide are scarce, was inconsistent in their findings, and limited in scope.
The five mental health service changes linked to the biggest falls in suicide were. This is the first study to look at specific impact mental health service improvements in a range of organisational contexts, on suicide rates. NICE guidelines on depression.
Importantly, implementing the five most promising changes had a greater impact in mental health services with low levels of non medical staff turnover and higher levels of overall reported safety incidents. Professor Nav Kapur, lead author and Head of Suicide Research at the Centre for Suicide Prevention at Manchester University. The study also linked suicide rates to some wider organisational factors including higher levels of nonmedical staff turnover and reporting of patient safety incidents. Other factors like staff sickness and patient satisfaction did not appear to affect suicide rates.
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The data also show that at least as important as these initiatives might be the organisational context in which they are introduced. These are important findings for mental health services worldwide, particularly in those countries where there is a focus on community care such as the USA, Europe, and Australasia. Remember, professor Louis Appleby, National Director Confidential Inquiry and the ‘coauthors’ of the study added. Whenever learning organisations may also be safer, mental health trusts with low staff turnover, and where staff reviewed suicide deaths with families had lower suicide rates suggesting that healthy. That’s right! Our study suggests that quite a few of these interventions may prevent suicide and save lives. Furthermore, this study shows that how clinical staff work can make a difference to patient suicide risk.
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership commissions the Mental Health Clinical Outcome Review Programme, NCISH, on behalf of NHS England, NHS Wales, the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate, the Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, and Jersey States and Guernsey. The researchers found that implementing recommendations and service changes was associated with significantly lower suicide rates. So, 16 Each recommendations and service changes were linked with ’20 30’percent decrease in the suicide rate.
In this study, the authors analysed 16 impact recommendations and service changes in all NHS mental health services across England on patient suicide rates between 1997 and They also looked at whether suicide deaths were related to the way mental health services were organised.
The researchers compared suicide rates before and after these recommendations and service changes were introduced. Nonetheless, this represents over a quarter of all suicide deaths in England during this time. The research included data from 19248 anyone who died by suicide in England over the 16 year period and were in contact with mental health services in the 12 months before they died.
