NCISH
@ncish.bsky.social
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/
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/
In the last session of the conference he had the privielge to hear from some of Prof Chang’s early and mid-career researchers doing superb work across epidemiology, qualitative research and intervention.
Many thanks to colleagues and countless new friends who helped to make Nav’s visit so special!
Many thanks to colleagues and countless new friends who helped to make Nav’s visit so special!
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
In the last session of the conference he had the privielge to hear from some of Prof Chang’s early and mid-career researchers doing superb work across epidemiology, qualitative research and intervention.
Many thanks to colleagues and countless new friends who helped to make Nav’s visit so special!
Many thanks to colleagues and countless new friends who helped to make Nav’s visit so special!
He also gave a talk on ‘NICE guidelines – valuable endeavour or paper exercise?’ chaired by the President of the Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry and the Director General for Health. Both lively sessions with great questions. One of the challenges was how to translate ‘paper exercise’ into Mandarin!
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
He also gave a talk on ‘NICE guidelines – valuable endeavour or paper exercise?’ chaired by the President of the Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry and the Director General for Health. Both lively sessions with great questions. One of the challenges was how to translate ‘paper exercise’ into Mandarin!
Nav ended the week by presenting a keynote lecture at the 64th Annual Congress of the Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry attended by over a thousand clinicians and researchers on ‘Closing the implementation gap in suicide prevention’.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Nav ended the week by presenting a keynote lecture at the 64th Annual Congress of the Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry attended by over a thousand clinicians and researchers on ‘Closing the implementation gap in suicide prevention’.
Our Director Nav Kapur was in Taiwan last week, hosted by the brilliant Professor Shu-Sen Chang @shusenc. Nav also gave talks on implementation and suicide prevention in clinical services at two of the main clinical psychiatric centres in Taipei and at the Taiwanese Center for Suicide Prevention.
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Our Director Nav Kapur was in Taiwan last week, hosted by the brilliant Professor Shu-Sen Chang @shusenc. Nav also gave talks on implementation and suicide prevention in clinical services at two of the main clinical psychiatric centres in Taipei and at the Taiwanese Center for Suicide Prevention.
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
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...
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...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 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...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...
You can find the report here:
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
We have also produced an infographic and short video summarising our key findings:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
youtu.be/jO1Urvuu_k8
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
We have also produced an infographic and short video summarising our key findings:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
youtu.be/jO1Urvuu_k8
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
You can find the report here:
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
We have also produced an infographic and short video summarising our key findings:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
youtu.be/jO1Urvuu_k8
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
We have also produced an infographic and short video summarising our key findings:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
youtu.be/jO1Urvuu_k8
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...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 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...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
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...
You can access all summaries at our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/catego...
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 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...
You can access all summaries at our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/catego...
Martin did brilliantly well with some extremely tough questions, passed with flying colours, and then he and his family hosted a superb celebratory dinner afterwards.
Congratulations Martin!
Congratulations Martin!
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Martin did brilliantly well with some extremely tough questions, passed with flying colours, and then he and his family hosted a superb celebratory dinner afterwards.
Congratulations Martin!
Congratulations Martin!
Our annual report is available in alternative formats, including:
- the full report (PDF)
- online, interactive report
- easy read version (also available in Welsh)
- infographic
- service user infographic (also available in Welsh)
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
- the full report (PDF)
- online, interactive report
- easy read version (also available in Welsh)
- infographic
- service user infographic (also available in Welsh)
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our annual report is available in alternative formats, including:
- the full report (PDF)
- online, interactive report
- easy read version (also available in Welsh)
- infographic
- service user infographic (also available in Welsh)
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
- the full report (PDF)
- online, interactive report
- easy read version (also available in Welsh)
- infographic
- service user infographic (also available in Welsh)
sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report...
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
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.
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
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...
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
We found numerous factors that may have contributed to suicide and that should be the target of future prevention. Two stood out: mental ill-health and academic problems. Several other factors (e.g., neurodiversity, financial problems) point to the need for targeted support.
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We found numerous factors that may have contributed to suicide and that should be the target of future prevention. Two stood out: mental ill-health and academic problems. Several other factors (e.g., neurodiversity, financial problems) point to the need for targeted support.
Our most recent report is our national review of higher education student suicide deaths. We examined serious incident reports of suspected suicide deaths &incidents of non-fatal self-harm submitted by higher education providers (2003 & 2004)
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Our most recent report is our national review of higher education student suicide deaths. We examined serious incident reports of suspected suicide deaths &incidents of non-fatal self-harm submitted by higher education providers (2003 & 2004)
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
The @ncish.bsky.social team are currently working on the 2026 Annual Report. You can read our 2025 report where key themes focussed on:
-pts w/ bipolar disorder
-pts who miss contact
-non-adherence to treatment
-recent bereavement
manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report... #suicideprevention #mentalhealth
-pts w/ bipolar disorder
-pts who miss contact
-non-adherence to treatment
-recent bereavement
manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report... #suicideprevention #mentalhealth
October 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The @ncish.bsky.social team are currently working on the 2026 Annual Report. You can read our 2025 report where key themes focussed on:
-pts w/ bipolar disorder
-pts who miss contact
-non-adherence to treatment
-recent bereavement
manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report... #suicideprevention #mentalhealth
-pts w/ bipolar disorder
-pts who miss contact
-non-adherence to treatment
-recent bereavement
manchester.ac.uk/ncish/report... #suicideprevention #mentalhealth
The fifth and final Culture of Care learning network event took place yesterday in Bristol, with the afternoon session focused on a personalised approaches to risk.
October 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The fifth and final Culture of Care learning network event took place yesterday in Bristol, with the afternoon session focused on a personalised approaches to risk.
Our @ncish.bsky.social Director Prof Nav Kapur enjoyed being back at his old medical school @universityofleeds.bsky.social giving his regular seminar on writing academic articles to health professionals. Here are some things he has learnt over the past 30 yrs. A recording of the talk available soon
October 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Our @ncish.bsky.social Director Prof Nav Kapur enjoyed being back at his old medical school @universityofleeds.bsky.social giving his regular seminar on writing academic articles to health professionals. Here are some things he has learnt over the past 30 yrs. A recording of the talk available soon
Nina & Julie spoke about Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's co-produced Suicide Prevention, Safety Planning & Risk Assessment Training. Darren from Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust provided an update on the Trust’s progress with moving away from risk stratification.
September 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Nina & Julie spoke about Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's co-produced Suicide Prevention, Safety Planning & Risk Assessment Training. Darren from Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust provided an update on the Trust’s progress with moving away from risk stratification.
Dr Leah Quinlivan @drleahquinlivan.bsky.social presented evidence on risk assessment of #selfharm and #suicide, current practice, and alternative approaches to risk stratification, with consideration of the Culture of Care equity principles.
September 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Dr Leah Quinlivan @drleahquinlivan.bsky.social presented evidence on risk assessment of #selfharm and #suicide, current practice, and alternative approaches to risk stratification, with consideration of the Culture of Care equity principles.
The fourth Culture of Care learning network event took place yesterday in Sheffield. These learning events are focused on safety and relationships, two of the Culture of Care standards, with afternoon sessions focused on personalised approaches to risk.
September 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The fourth Culture of Care learning network event took place yesterday in Sheffield. These learning events are focused on safety and relationships, two of the Culture of Care standards, with afternoon sessions focused on personalised approaches to risk.