Data slides and presentations
Watch presentations on suicide and self-harm prevention by our Professor Sir Louis Appleby and Professor Nav Kapur, and from professional and lived experience contributors to our annual NCISH conferences. You can also download our data slides on mental health patient suicide and homicide.
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Suicide in the North: inequalities, research, action
In this talk, to the Northern Health Science Alliance, Professor Nav Kapur discusses inequalities in suicide and actionable approaches for suicide prevention [June 2025].
Download the slides [June 2025]
Responding to suicide and self-harm in middle-aged men
In this talk, organised by the National Centre for Social Research and the British Academy, Professor Nav Kapur discusses suicide and self-harm prevention in middle-age men. Watch from 5:23:17 [July 2025].
Download the slides [July 2025]
What role do clinical services have in suicide prevention?
Watch Professor Nav Kapur discuss the role of clinical services in suicide prevention, what works and what does not work [July 2025].
Download the slides [July 2025]
The past, present and future of suicide prevention in clinical care
In this talk Professor Nav Kapur discusses the past, present and future of suicide prevention in clinical services.
Download the slides [June 2024]
Suicide risk assessment: moving towards a personalised approach
Watch Professor Nav Kapur talk about suicide risk assessment and why we should move towards a comprehensive, personalised approach to assessment and management.
Self-harm prevention
Watch Professor Nav Kapur talk about why we need new care pathways for self-harm [May 2024].
Latest findings on suicide and self-harm prevention
Watch Professor Louis Appleby talk to NHS England’s Suicide Prevention Programme network about the newly published National Suicide Prevention Strategy [11 October 2023].
Suicide prevention: is it possible? The new national suicide prevention strategy
In this talk Professor Louis Appleby outlines the new national suicide prevention strategy for England and the evidence that has shaped it [20 September 2023].
Watch the video on YouTube (restricted viewing)
Safer Care in 2026: new figures and key findings from 30 years of NCISH, May 2026
At NCISH’s 2026 annual conference, we reflected on 30 years of NCISH and presented the latest UK-wide findings from NCISH’s 2026 Annual Report. We were joined by our Chair, Professor Ann John (Clinical Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry and Director of the National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Research) and guest speaker Professor David Mosse (bereaved parent and Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS). Throughout the conference, short videos marking our 30-year anniversary from friends of NCISH were shown.
We also announced the winners of the 2026 Martin Lawlor Research Bursary Award – Bethany Ashton and Ella Langham, PhD students. Bethany and Ella will use the award to establish a Nurse Advisory Group (NAG) of nurses with lived experience of whistleblowing and workplace violence.
Our guest speaker Professor David Mosse speaks about his son and his anthropological insights into mental health crisis care and suicide prevention.
Professor Sir Louis Appleby presents the findings and recommendations from NCISH’s 2026 Annual Report.
Professor Nav Kapur presents 30 years of NCISH research.
Watch our panel discussion where our Chair and speakers answer delegates’ questions.
Data slides
Suicide prevention quality improvement
View the slides for Professor Nav Kapur’s talk to NHS England’s Suicide Prevention Programme network about our work in quality improvement for suicide and self-harm prevention [20 February 2024].
Self-harm
NICE guidelines for self-harm
In this webinar presented by Professor Nav Kapur, learn about the new (September 2022) NICE guidelines for self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence [13 July 2023].
UK-wide data slides (suicide)
The following series of slides present data items previously published in our report Avoidable Deaths (2006) but which were not included in our Annual Report. The findings are based on the period 2012-2022.
- England suicide data slides 2012-2022
- Northern Ireland general population suicide data slides 2012-2022
- Scotland suicide data slides 2012-2022
- Wales suicide data slides 2012-2022
UK-wide data slides (homicide)
Due to a reduction in our homicide programme, we only present general population homicide characteristics and the number of homicides by people in contact with mental health services. Homicide data for Northern Ireland are not included, due to small numbers.
The following series of slides are based on the period 2006-2016. This is the last period for which we present detailed characteristics for patient homicide. Due to small numbers, patient homicide data for Northern Ireland and Wales are not included.
Suicide by middle-aged men
The findings and recommendations from NCISH’s study examining suicide by middle-aged men were presented at out 7th Annual Conference in June 2021.
Suicide by children and young people
Suicide and self-harm in young people: a new prevention challenge?
Watch Professor Nav Kapur present at the Northern Ireland Mental Health Champion’s youth suicide prevention conference “Generation Hope” (watch from 07:35) [6 March 2023].
Is there a suicide crisis in young people?
In this transformation seminar, organised by the Anna Freud Centre, Professor Sir Louis Appleby discusses topics on suicide and self-harm with Professor Peter Fonagy [28 June 2022].
NCISH study of Suicide by children and young people
The findings and recommendations from NCISH’s study examining suicide by children and young people were presented at an event on 8 October 2019 – a collaborative event hosted by NCISH and STORM Skills Training.
The assessment of clinical risk in mental health services
The findings and recommendations from NCISH’s study of the assessment of clinical risk in mental health services were presented at our 5th annual conference in October 2018.
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