New national suicide figures are published today in a series of reports. Headline message from Office for National Statistics (ONS) is a rise in 2023, the highest rate since 1999. But, taken together, the reports tell a more complex story. Short 🧵

Letter to Addiction highlighting the importance of investigating gambling‐related suicide - Roberts - Addiction - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad… Steve Sharman CharlesRitchieGwL GamLEARN

Huge congratulations to Leah Quinlivan 👏👏 She has been awarded 'Best Outstanding Contribution to Research Impact by Research Staff' in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (UoM Biology, Medicine and Health) at The University of Manchester NCISH #patientsafety #nihr

I welcome Home Office plans in their effort to halve violence against women and girls with DA specialists in 999 control rooms & the new DA protection order pilot. Be great to see DA specialists embedded on frontline so victims always receive the right response & protection.

The Mental Elf blog on ethnicity & suicide is now out! NCISH researcher Pauline Rivart reviewed and summarised a national cohort study from Dr Duleeka Knipe & colleagues

The generous funds received from this award enabled me to attend and present at EPA Section of Epidemiology & Social Psychiatry Congress in Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this month. You can read a summary of my experience in this brief report: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?D… Thank you NCISH State of Mind

NCISH We have been having some technical issues with our questionnaire portal 3/4 Oct, if you completed a questionnaire on these dates, we may not have received this. We have paused data collection until this issue is resolved. Thank you for supporting the team

Five years ago today I took the best photo I’ll probably ever take. I like good photos and have a four hour bus journey shortly so need entertaining. Feel free to reply with the best photo you ever took. Accompanying description also welcome.

My very first NCISH paper is out BJPsych Journals! 🎉 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New NCISH study, led by Pauline Rivart Read about the study on method-specific suicide prevention

*New report* 🧵We looked at factors specific to female nurses who died by suicide in comparison with women in other occupations, and factors specific to male nurses in comparison with men in other occupations 1/4 manchester.ac.uk/ncish/reports/…

Female nurses have a high suicide rate. Our new report NCISH finds workplace & financial stresses & low rate of help-seeking from MH services they work alongside.

Our new NCISH paper on Self-harm in children & young people who die by suicide, published in BJPsych Journals. Study led by Dr Shilpa Aggarwal, together with our Prof Nav Kapur & Dr Cathryn Rodway doi.org/10.1192/bjp.20…

"We need a step change in how we think about suicide" Changing the narrative on suicide to save lives The Times and The Sunday Times James’ Place International Association for Suicide Prevention

We think that our suicide prevention work and recommendations should reach as many people as possible. You can now find NCISH on Bluesky and LinkedIn: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/ncish.…… LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ncish/

Research is invaluable but what about implementation? Our new Lancet Psychiatry paper suggests #QualityImprovement could be an excellent approach to implementing suicide & self-harm research findings. NCCMH MaSH NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC louis appleby thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Our NEW Annual Report 2025 is now available and provides findings related to people who died by suicide between 2012-2022 across the UK and Jersey. sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/reports/…

One of our most important papers, just published, is not full of data. It describes a national #suicideprevention initiative in England, evidence-based, working with frontline agencies. NCISH working with NCCMH thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Save the date! Our 11th annual conference will be held on 8th May 2025.

NCISH invites applications to the Martin Lawlor Research Bursary Award open to early career researchers in the UK & Ireland. A bursary of up to £2,000 is available for research activity in self-harm or suicide prevention. Closing date 14th March 2025. buff.ly/3EYh071