The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, sometimes referred to as NCISH, based in Manchester University is commissioned by the
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) was established in April 2008 to promote improvement in health services, by increasing the impact that clinical audit has on healthcare quality in England and Wales and, in some cases other dev ...
on behalf of
NHS England,
NHS Wales
NHS Wales ( cy, GIG (Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol) Cymru) is the publicly-funded healthcare system in Wales, and one of the four systems which make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.
NHS Wales was formed as part of the public ...
, the
Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate, the
Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, the
States of Guernsey and the
States of Jersey.
It is directed by
Louis Appleby
Sir James Louis John Appleby (born 27 February 1955) is a British psychiatrist who leads the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England and directs the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness ...
.
Its report in 2014 pointed out that mental health patients are at the highest risk of taking their own lives in the first two weeks after being discharged from hospital.
It produced a report in July 2017 which showed that 25% of young people who die by suicide have suffered a bereavement themselves. In 11% of cases this death was also a suicide.
See also
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Suicide in the United Kingdom
References
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Patient safety
Suicide in the United Kingdom
Mental health in the United Kingdom
Medical and health organisations based in the United Kingdom