{"id":8019,"date":"2026-09-30T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/ncish\/?page_id=8019"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:30:36","slug":"method-faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/ncish\/resources\/frequently-asked-questions\/method-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Method FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_module=&#8221;322&#8243;][et_pb_fullwidth_menu global_parent=&#8221;322&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; menu_id=&#8221;7&#8243; submenu_direction=&#8221;downwards&#8221; fullwidth_menu=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; module_class=&#8221;main-navigation&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221; 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Disparities (OHID)?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"define-s-h\">How do you define suicide and homicide?<\/h2>\n<p>General population suicides are defined as deaths by intentional self-harm and deaths of undetermined intent by individuals aged 10 and over. Homicide is a collective term used to describe unlawful killings. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) describes homicide as including murder, manslaughter, infanticide and offences involving causing or allowing the death or serious injury of a child or vulnerable adult. We have adopted this description in our work and collect data on all these outcomes. We also collect information on people who are charged with homicide but receive a verdict of not guilty by insanity or who are found unfit to plead. You can find more information about our homicide study, including frequently asked questions on our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/ncish\/projects\/homicide-and-mental-illness-in-england\/\">Homicide and Mental Illness in England<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"define-patient-s\">How do you define patient suicides?<\/h2>\n<p>Patients are those in contact with psychiatric, drug and alcohol, child and adolescent or learning disability services (if they are within mental health services) within 12 months of their death, with their care usually under a consultant psychiatrist. These include a range of patients, from those seen for one-off assessments to those who had been under the long-term care of services. Patients who were seen for a one-off assessment in a liaison setting with no follow-up arranged would not meet NCISH criteria for a patient suicide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"collect-s\">How do you collect suicide data?<\/h2>\n<h3>Stage 1: National mortality data<\/h3>\n<p>Data on all general population suicide deaths and deaths of undetermined intent are obtained from the Office for National Statistics (ONS; for deaths registered in England and Wales), National Records of Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA).<\/p>\n<h3>Stage 2: Identification of mental health patients<\/h3>\n<p>We identify contact of those individuals with mental health services in the 12 months prior to the incident through administrative contacts at healthcare organisations and if contact is confirmed we:<\/p>\n<h3>Stage 3: Detailed data collection via questionnaire<\/h3>\n<p>Collect detailed clinical data via questionnaire from the consultant psychiatrist (or other senior professional) responsible for the patient\u2019s care.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See further detail on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/ncish\/resources\/#methodology\">NCISH methodology.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NCISH has the following approvals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Section 251 support which is approved by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the advice of the Health Research Authority\u2019s (HRA) Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) (reference: 23\/CAG\/0024). Section 251 support permits us to access confidential and identifiable patient information without consent in the interest of improving care.<\/li>\n<li>Approval from the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (PBPP) (eDRIS ref: 2021-0114);<\/li>\n<li>Individual trust\/Health Board approval with NHS mental health services providing data in England, Wales and Scotland.<\/li>\n<li>Data sharing agreement with Public Health Isle of Man and Manx<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"collect-h\">How do you collect homicide data?<\/h2>\n<h3>Stage 1<\/h3>\n<p>Obtain information on all homicide convictions from the Home Office Homicide Index (England and Wales) and the Management Information Analysis Team at the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service (Scotland). We have historically obtained data from the Central Business Unit of Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunal Service (Northern Ireland).<\/p>\n<h3>Stage 2<\/h3>\n<p>Identify contact of those individuals with mental health services in the 12 months prior to the incident through administrative contacts at healthcare organisations \u2013 allowing us to record and report on the numbers of homicides by people in contact with mental health services.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about our homicide study, including how we collect data on our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/ncish\/projects\/homicide-and-mental-illness-in-england\/\">Homicide and Mental Illness in England<\/a> webpage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"define-h-then-s\">How do you define homicide-followed by suicide and how do you collect these data?<\/h2>\n<p>Homicide followed by suicide is defined as when the perpetrator died by suicide within three days of carrying out the homicide. Information on how this data is collected is outlined in our <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.manchester.ac.uk\/display.aspx?DocID=79140\">homicide followed by suicide methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-complete\">How complete is the data you present?<\/h2>\n<p>Overall, the data completeness for patient suicide is high, but the figures for more recent years in any given report will be less complete. This reflects the time taken to process the data and is, in part, because of delays in legal processes. Data on homicide convictions provided by the Home Office are also incomplete for more recent years and are likely to vary between police force areas. We calculate how complete our data are by examining data patterns from earlier years and estimating how much more data we are likely to receive and the number of questionnaires this would generate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"delay\">Why is there a delay in the receipt of data from national sources?<\/h2>\n<p>Some deaths must be referred for a coroner\u2019s inquest into the cause of death; only then may the death be recorded as suicide or of undetermined cause on national registers. In England and Wales, the inquest process can take several months creating a delay in death registration and subsequently the notification of the death to the NCISH on our national mortality data extracts. In Scotland delays in registration are minimal as deaths are required to be registered within eight days. Similarly, the legal process of bringing a homicide to court, the trial itself, and any subsequent appeal against conviction introduces a time lag from when the homicide was committed to the offender being convicted and this outcome being recorded on national databases and notified to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"case-series-data\">Do you only collect case series data?<\/h2>\n<p>No. NCISH is a large, national case series of suicide and homicide by mental health patients. However, we also use other methods to address specific questions. We have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carried out record linkage studies to identify patient suicides occurring in primary care and drug and alcohol services;<\/li>\n<li>Interviewed GPs and nurses to identify barriers to accessing secondary services, and difficulties with observation in in-patient settings;<\/li>\n<li>Conducted case control studies to investigate in-patient suicide, suicide in the post-discharge period and homicide by patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia;<\/li>\n<li>Examined the association between local service delivery and changing suicide rates;<\/li>\n<li>Reviewed mental health care records to investigate the assessment and management of risk prior to suicide or homicide;<\/li>\n<li>Examined suicide in the general population using information from investigations by official bodies, mainly coroners;<\/li>\n<li>Reviewed independent investigations after<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/ncish\/projects\/\">our projects.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"questionnaires-returned\">How many of the questionnaires that you send out are returned?<\/h2>\n<p>Response rates refer to the completion and return of NCISH questionnaires by clinicians and are expressed as a percentage. For example, 95 out of 100 questionnaires sent to clinicians within a trust\/health board that are returned complete would equate to a 95% response rate. In 2023, response rates were 95% or better in almost all trusts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"icd-change\">What has been the effect of the ICD-10 coding changes to the recording of drug-related deaths?<\/h2>\n<p>Following an update to the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) in 2011, new rules for coding certain drug-related deaths were introduced. Some drug-related\u00a0deaths previously coded as due to \u2018mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance misuse\u2019 are now coded as suicide or undetermined deaths. Both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/\">Office for National Statistics<\/a> (ONS) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrscotland.gov.uk\/\">National Records of Scotland<\/a> (NRS) have implemented these changes to coding practice. Analysis by ONS has shown these new coding rules have had no significant impact on the suicide figures in England. However, they have affected numbers in Scotland. More information on the change in coding rules can be found in the ONS statistical bulletin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/birthsdeathsandmarriages\/deaths\/bulletins\/suicidesintheunitedkingdom\/2013-01-22\">Suicides in the UK, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"coding-ni\">What has been the effect of changes to suicide death coding in Northern Ireland?<\/h2>\n<p>The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) and the Coroners&#8217; Service reviewed deaths registered between 2015 and 2020 which were originally recorded as \u2018undetermined intent\u2019 and reclassified some of these to \u2018accidental\u2019 deaths. These deaths would therefore no longer fall within our suicide definition. NISRA have implemented a Series Break in the Northern Ireland Suicide Statistics Series following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nisra.gov.uk\/system\/files\/statistics\/Suicide_Review_Report.pdf\">Review of Suicide Statistics in Northern Ireland<\/a>. This means that figures for years prior to 2015 can be used to indicate trend but are not directly comparable to figures from 2015 onwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"classify-h\">How does NCISH classify homicide cases?<\/h2>\n<p>Homicide is a collective term used to describe unlawful killings. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) describes homicide as including murder, manslaughter, infanticide and offences involving causing or allowing the death or serious injury of a child or vulnerable adult. We have adopted this description in our work and collect data on all these outcomes. We also gather information on individuals who are charged with homicide but receive a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, are found unfit to plead or died by suicide following a homicide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"differences\">Why are there differences between the rates of suicide you calculate and those calculated by other agencies?<\/h2>\n<p>Discrepancies may arise between national numbers and suicide rates presented in our annual reports and those presented by other agencies, like ONS, due to differences in measurement of suicide and how the rates of suicides are calculated. We:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calculate the number of suicides based on the <strong>date of death<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>Collect data on suicide from age 10 years and over;<\/li>\n<li>Include a small number of deaths occurring outside the country and deaths of people who were not residents of the country. For example, for Wales we include all those deaths that occurred within Wales (residents and non-residents of Wales) and the deaths of Wales residents who died in other countries;<\/li>\n<li>Calculate the overall rate of suicide based upon the number in the general population aged 10 years and over.<\/li>\n<li>Calculate crude suicide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other agencies sometimes report the rate of suicide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where the number of suicides reported are based on <strong>date of registration of death;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Using deaths from age 15 and<\/li>\n<li>That have been standardised using the European Standard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"compare\">How do NCISH mental health patient figures compare to official statistics from the Office for Health Improvement &amp; Disparities (OHID)?<\/h2>\n<p>The 2026 report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/suicide-in-people-with-severe-mental-health-problems\/suicide-in-people-with-severe-mental-health-problems-report\">Suicide in people with severe mental health problems<\/a> by the Office for Health Improvement &amp; Disparities (OHID) presented findings on suicide by people in England who were referred to mental health services. Their statistics complement the NCISH data but are not directly comparable. For example, OHID include earlier mental health service contact of up to five years prior to suicide; open referrals rather than confirmed contact with services; and people aged 18 to 74 years rather than 10 years and over. 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