Preventing suicide in community and custodial settings. NG105

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018)

NICE - n/a

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Evidence Categories

• Care setting: Healthcare Setting
• Care setting: Other settings
• Care setting: Prisons
• Population group: Adults
• Population group: Prisoner/ ex prisoner
• Intervention: Universal Intervention: Means restriction
• Intervention: Selective interventions: Multicomponent (multiple selective components)
• Intervention: Universal Intervention: Gate keeper training
• Intervention: Universal Intervention: Awareness raising
• Intervention: Universal Intervention: Media reporting interventions
• Intervention: Universal Intervention: Multicomponent (multiple universal components)
• Intervention: Selective interventions: Educational interventions
• Intervention: Multicomponent: across more than one level
• Intervention: Selective interventions: Means restriction
• Intervention: Selective interventions: Awareness raising
• Outcome: Suicide

Type of Evidence

Guidance

Overview

This guideline covers ways to reduce suicide and help people bereaved or affected by suicides. It aims to:

- Help local services work more effectively together to prevent suicide
- Identify and help people at risk
- Prevent suicide in places where it is currently more likely.

It does not cover national strategies, general mental wellbeing, or areas covered by other NICE guidance such as SH or mental health conditions. This guideline should be read in conjunction with Public Health England's Local suicide prevention planning: a practice resource.

Recommendations

This guideline includes recommendations on:

- Suicide prevention partnerships, strategies and action plans
- Gathering and analysing suicide-related information
- Awareness raising by suicide prevention partnerships
- How suicide prevention partnerships can reduce access to methods of suicide
- Training by suicide prevention partnerships
- How suicide prevention partnerships can support people bereaved or affected by a suspected suicide
- Reducing the potential harmful effects of media reporting of a suspected suicide