NCISH / Information for
- National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide, Homicide and Safety in Mental Health
- Information for…
- Reports
- Annual report 2026 summary
- National review of higher education student suicide deaths
- Annual report 2025: UK patient and general population data, 2012-2022
- Suicide by nurses
- Annual report 2024: UK patient and general population data 2011-2021
- Suicide by people in contact with drug and alcohol services
- Annual report 2023: UK patient and general population data 2010-2020
- Annual report 2022: UK patient and general population data 2009-2019, and real-time surveillance data
- Annual report 2021: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Suicide by middle-aged men
- Suicide in England since the COVID-19 pandemic
- Annual report 2019: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- The assessment of clinical risk in mental health services
- Safer care for patients with personality disorder
- Suicide by children and young people
- Suicide by children and young people in England
- Annual report 2018: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Projects
- Resources
- 10 ways to improve safety
- Our toolkits
- Provisional patient suicide data (2012-2025)
- Safer care for patients given a diagnosis of personality disorder: a learning resource
- Data slides and presentations
- NCISH methodology
- NCISH publications
- Sample questionnaires
- NCISH 10 standards for investigating serious incidents
- Data security
- Implementing a personalised approach to risk
- Clinical guidelines on risk assessment
- NCISH evidence on suicide risk assessment in UK mental health services
- Risk assessment scales, categories and tools should not be used to predict suicide risk
- The role of health professionals in assessing suicide risk
- The importance of psychosocial assessment following self-harm
- Prompt aftercare to psychological therapies following self-harm
- Cost-effectiveness of psychosocial assessments
- Local approaches to personalised risk assessment
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 1
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 2
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 3
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 4
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 5
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 6
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 7
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 8
- Personalised approach to risk: learning event 9
- Workshop 1 – Year 1 and Year 2 shared learning
- Workshop 2 – Emotional co-regulation and relational care, self-harm, suicide and assessments
- Workshop 3 – Coroners, the Care Quality Commission and suicide prevention
- Workshop 4 – Whole organisational approach: Shared learning session
- Frequently asked questions
- Requests for information
- Examples of good practice: suicide prevention initiatives
- National academic response to COVID-19-related suicide prevention
- Suicide in NHS Staff data collection: Resources and postvention support
- Help in a crisis
- About
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Practitioners
We produce a wide range of national and themed reports and research papers, as well as other resources.
Service users and carers
Share your views and experience on mental health care and your suggestions about how we can develop our work.
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