Aggarwal et al., (2025) In this descriptive study, we explored the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and service utilisation related to self-harm in a national sample of young people (10- to 19-year-olds) who died by suicide. Between 2014 and 2016, we...
Kapur et al, 2025 In this Personal View, we summarise three recent national quality improvement programmes in England which focused on suicide prevention or self-harm. A suicide prevention quality improvement programme A community-based care for self-harm programme A...
Hercus et al., 2024 This study is, to our knowledge, the largest to focus on factors associated with suicide in patients with a diagnosis of eating disorders in England. Between 1997 and 2021, we found of the 30,246 patients under the recent care of mental health...
Turnbull et al (2024) Using data from established systems of real-time surveillance (RTS) of suspected suicides in England, from January 2020 until the end of December 2021, this study found no rise in suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic to the end of December...
Graney et al (2024) This study is a detailed examination of suicide in a sample of over 240 men aged 40-54 who died by suicide in 2017. We collected information on the factors related to suicide from official investigations, mainly inquests. We found a complex pattern...
Hunt et al (2024) In our third study of in-patient suicide rates in England, we examined trends in suicide rates among in-patients who died between 2009 and 2020. We also aimed to determine if characteristics of in-patients who died by suicide had changed over time....
Rodway et al (2023) There are comparatively few international studies investigating suicide in military veterans and no recent UK-wide studies. This was a 23-year retrospective cohort study of suicide in a cohort of over 458,000 individuals who had left the UK Armed...
Mughal et al (2023) Reducing suicide risk in middle-aged males is a national priority. This study was a descriptive examination of suicide in a national consecutive sample of middle-aged men (aged 40-54 years) who died in 2017 in England, Scotland, and Wales...
Tham et al, 2023 In this study we aimed to examine the characteristics and recent experiences of psychiatric patients who migrated to the UK and who died by suicide between 2011 and 2019. We identified 593 psychiatric patients who had migrated to the UK in the...
In May 2019, the Court of Appeal in England and Wales ruled that the determination of suicide at inquest should be based on a civil standard of proof, not a criminal standard.
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