Tag: Suicide

Latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service can now be viewed at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/bulletins/suicide-prevention/

This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.

In this issue:    

  • Characteristics of Adolescents With Elevated Suicide Risk Presenting to the ED With Physical Health Complaints
  • Effects of Digital Interventions Implemented in Schools to Improve Youth Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review
  • Emotion Reactivity Moderates the Association Between Momentary Negative Affect and Suicidal Thinking
  • Ketamine addiction following a single sub-anaesthetic ketamine treatment for acute suicidality in a psychiatrically multimorbid patient: case report
  • Plus much more

Please let us know if there are any other colleagues who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.


Suicide Prevention

Dear all,

The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service can now be viewed at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/bulletins/suicide-prevention/

This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.

In this issue:  
   

  • Trusted Voices: Higher death rates among young LGBTQ+ people highlight the risks of misinformation at vulnerable moments
  • More exam stress at 15 linked to higher risk of depression as young adult – study
  • Using AI for emotional support
  • Stigma and risk of self-injury and suicidality in adults with Tourette syndrome: findings from a cross-sectional impact survey
  • Plus much more

Please let me know if there are any other colleagues who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.

NB Due to planned absence there will be no Suicide Prevention & Self-Harm bulletin the w/b 2 March. The next bulletin will be w/b 16 March.

Learning Disabilities and Autism

December Bulletin

You can view the latest edition of this bulletin, completed by our colleagues at Mersey Care, here:  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability-autism/2025/12/17-december-2025/


In this edition:

  • Learning disabilities and adolescent suicidal ideation: Findings from the z-proso cohort study
  • Neurodiversity-Affirming Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (NDA-DBT) Informed Group Skills Training Programme for Autistic Adults: A Pilot Study
  • Effects of a repeated reading intervention on the reading fluency of adolescents with intellectual disability
  • Review launched into mental health, ADHD and autism services
  • Education Committee publishes Govt’s response to landmark SEND report
  • Working effectively with Autistic parents
  • Plus much more

Staying Safe from Suicide

Guidance into Practice Webinar

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 9:30am to 11am 

In April 2025. NHS England published essential guidance to support reduction in suicide, a government commitment.

The guidance, aimed at all mental health practitioners in England, sets out that a focus on suicide “risk prediction” is flawed, and that this guidance’s alterative approach based on formulation and safety management will save lives.

This webinar will take you briefly through the guidance [Staying safe from suicide: Best practice guidance for safety assessment, formulation and management] and importantly will support you in implementing it in your own organisation and work. 

The webinar is free to attend and is open to NHS, private and charity sectors, as the guidance applies to all.  ‘Staying Safe from Suicide’ is based on the latest research and was written in conjunction with people with lived experience.

When you attend you will hear from:

  • front line practitioners who have already embedded this guidance
  • people with lived experience
  • colleagues who are developing our Staying Safe from Suicide E-Learning training tools.

No registration is required. Please add the event and joining link to your calendar.

Crisis care for young people

What alternatives are there for young people’s crisis care? A new report by Look Ahead warns young people are unlikely to receive inpatient mental health care unless they ‘have attempted suicide multiple times’ and more alternatives to emergency care in A and E are needed.

Spirituality and Mental Health and Suicide and Self Harm Current Awareness bulletins

The current bulletins for Spirituality and Mental Health and Suicide and Self Harm bulletins, produced by Greater Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, are now available to view and download.

Please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk if you are unable to access any of the articles.

Public Health

Current Awareness

How can local authorities reduce obesity? Insights from NIHR research.
NIHR Evidence; 2022.
(This themed review draws on the breadth of NIHR research relevant to obesity, conversations with staff at local councils and at national organisations, and feedback from a group of practitioners, researchers and members of the public. Together they identify evidence-based actions that local authorities, working with their local partners, can take to reduce obesity in their communities.)

Support at the end of life: The role of hospice services across the UK.
Nuffield Trust; 2022.
(This new analysis draws on a nationwide survey of hospices conducted by Hospice UK to address a large gap in our understanding of the services that the hospice sector provides across the UK, including how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted those services.)

Fit for the Future: The Health Value of Wellbeing and Leisure Services.
District Councils’ Network; 2022.
(This new report from DCN, produced with health consultants HEC at University of East Anglia and Economics By Design, delivers strong evidence of the potential of these services to tackle health inequalities and level up our communities.)

Estimating suicide among higher education students, England and Wales: Experimental Statistics: 2017 to 2020.
Office of National Statistics (ONS); 2022.
(The suicide rate for higher education students in the academic year ending 2020 in England and Wales was 3.0 deaths per 100,000 students (64 suicide deaths); this is the lowest rate observed over the last four years, although the small numbers per year make it difficult to identify statistically significant differences. Higher education students in England and Wales had a significantly lower suicide rate compared with the general population of similar ages.)

Library Bulletin

Suicide Prevention

The current bulletin for Suicide Prevention, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, is now available to view and download.

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletins please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Emotional Support

Online resources – Shout 85258

Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope. It was launched publicly in May 2019 and has had more than 900,000 conversations with people who are anxious, stressed, depressed, suicidal or overwhelmed and who need immediate support. As a digital service, Shout 85258 has become increasingly critical since Covid-19, being one of the few mental health support services able to operate as normal at this time.

For more information visit the website here.