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National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health.

Winner of ‪2023 & 2019 @manchester.ac.uk‬ Making a Difference award for social responsibility & 2025‪ Outstanding Contribution to PPIE award.

https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/
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An important new development at NCISH. We are resuming detailed data collection into patient homicide. This programme will expand on the national homicide inquiry that ended in 2018. We plan to explore new questions, additional methodologies & work closely with affected families.
You can read the findings from our provisional patient suicide data (2012-2024) here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
Provisional patient suicide data (2012-2024)
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November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Our @AliBaird and @BojanicLana gave a talk earlier today at the Co Occurring Mental Health Alcohol and Drugs COMHAD - POLICY Webinar to over 200 attendees. They presented our report on suicide in substance misuse services sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
Suicide by people in contact with drug and alcohol services
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November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to hear from you! We value your opinion on our research, how we share our findings and how we could improve. Take a few minutes to complete our confidential survey www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
NCISH stakeholder survey
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November 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
While we are preparing our next annual report, remind yourself of previous years key findings and clinical messages: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Have you implemented our recommendations linked to lower patient suicide rates? Watch our short video about 10 ways to improve patient safety, and complete our Safer Services toolkit against your local audit data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwa9... sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/#toolk...
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our website presents the most up-to-date suicide data, including all data we currently hold for deaths that occurred between 2012 and 2024 in the UK and Jersey. This will be updated on a quarterly basis as more data becomes available.
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Have you got questions about NCISH methods of data collection, obtaining data, involvement and our online data collection?

See our frequently asked questions page on our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We value your opinion on our research, how we share our findings, and how we could improve. Please consider filling in our short, confidential survey to give us feedback on our research. www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
NCISH stakeholder survey
Qualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today.
www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Read our report on our national review of higher education student suicide deaths. This is the largest national study to conduct a detailed examination of individual factors related to suicide in higher education students.

sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Our NCISH website includes presentations on suicide and self-harm prevention by our @proflappleby.bsky.social and Prof Nav Kapur, and from professional and lived experience contributors to our annual conferences.

You can view these and data slides here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Did you know that we have summaries of some of our key NCISH publications on patient safety across the UK?

You can access all summaries at our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/catego...
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Thank you for the kind words @ncish.bsky.social. I’m grateful and honored by Prof. Kapurs thoughtful comments on our work! Truly, a great day for both me and the Norwegian Surveillance System!
NCISH work has informed clinical data collection in a number of countries. The best established is the Norwegian Surveillance System for Suicide led by Dr Fredrik Walby and colleagues.
October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NCISH work has informed clinical data collection in a number of countries. The best established is the Norwegian Surveillance System for Suicide led by Dr Fredrik Walby and colleagues.
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Our Annual Report 2025 provides findings related to people who died by suicide between 2012-2022 across the UK & Jersey. We also present findings on the number of people under mental health care who have been convicted of homicide, & those in the general population in the UK.
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our NCISH Director Professor Nav Kapur spoke with @roryoc.bsky.social for a @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social podcast episode about designing research that saves lives.

This episode is available in both audio and video format:

open.spotify.com/episode/5CDG...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUk0...
Designing Research That Saves Lives with Professor Nav Kapur
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October 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Today, we held our 6th Culture of Care Personalised Approach to Risk national learning event. This was focused on racial equity, self-harm and suicide prevention.
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Read our NCISH paper on suicide in patients with eating disorders in England, published in @thelancetpsych.bsky.social. Patient safety and #SuicidePrevention must remain urgent priorities for eating disorder services and #MentalHealth care more widely thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Have you got questions about NCISH methods of data collection, obtaining data, involvement and our online data collection? See our frequently asked questions page on our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
October 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Read a recently published paper led by our @lanabojanic.bsky.social on suicide-related internet use (SRIU) among suicidal mental health patients in the UK. This study underscores the dual role of SRIU as a source of support & a potential risk for MH patients buff.ly/yGAcQXj
Exploring Suicide-Related Internet Use Among Suicidal Mental Health Patients in the United Kingdom: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study
Background: The dual nature of suicide-related internet use (SRIU) as preventative or harmful is well-documented, but its characteristics in mental health patient population remain underresearched.…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Based on our evidence from studies of mental health services, primary care and accident and emergency departments we have developed a list of 10 key elements for safer care for patients from which we have developed our @ncish.bsky.social toolkit.
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Our themed reports provide health professionals, policymakers and service managers with the evidence and practical suggestions they need to effectively manage change and reduce risk of patient suicide: t.co/URNmRGUYU0
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We work closely with service users and carers in the design and development of our studies. Please share your views and experiences on mental health care and your suggestions about how we can develop our work: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/inform...
Service users and carers
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October 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We have updated our provisional patient suicide data on our website, including all data we currently hold for deaths that occurred between 2012 and 2024 in the UK and Jersey. This will be updated on a quarterly basis as more data becomes available: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
Provisional patient suicide data (2012-2024)
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October 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
In November our Prof Kapur will be visiting Taiwan where he is the plenary lecture speaker at the 2025 Annual Congress of Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry. You can watch presentations on suicide & self-harm prevention by Profs Kapur & Appleby on our website buff.ly/JB13hSn
October 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
We have summaries of some of our key @NCISH.bsky.social publications on patient safety and suicide in the general population across the UK. You can access all summaries at our website here: buff.ly/uYOh39J
October 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM