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Suicide Prevention in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – a focus on Camborne Pool Illogan and Redruth Community Network Panel

Wellbeing & Public Health and Partners

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Agenda

• Suicides in Cornwall - Recent trends and data update including specific data

from Camborne, Pool, Illogan, and Redruth

• Our approach to suicide prevention

Real time surveillance Immediate postvention Prevention actions

• 1. Population wide
• 2. Targeted populations
• Partnerships

Suicide surveillance group Multi Agency Suicide Prevention Group

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Suicide in context

• Around 765 people are murdered in the UK every year.
• Around 2,000 people are killed on UK roads every year.
• Around 6,000 people die by suicide in the UK each year (1,500 women and 4,500

men).

• On average more than one person dies per week by suicide in Cornwall & IoS.
• Suicide rates for Cornwall and IoS are significantly higher than suicide rates in

both England and South West at 14.6 per 100,000 people.

• Over the past 10 years 73 residents have suicided across your network panel

geography

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Suicide data

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Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth Community Network Panel suicide data 2009-2018

Men Women Average age No.in employment 2009 2 61 2010 7 1 32 2011 3 68 2012 9 5 45 2013 8 1 40 2 2014 9 1 51 5 2015 6 4 37 4 2016 4 2 36 2 2017 5 1 46 2 2018 5 45 5 Overall 58 (81%) 15 (19%) 44 20 (28%)

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Real-time surveillance

Need real time surveillance to enable timely postvention actions to be taken Have set up a surveillance group with key partners so anyone who hears about a suicide notifies us and we distribute to partnership group to gain a quick understanding of who may be affected (partner, children, work colleagues, friends) Suicide surveillance partners include:

• Devon & Cornwall Police
• Suicide Liaison Service
• School Effectiveness, Educational Psychology and Penhaligon’s Friends
• Healthy Workplaces
• GP Practices
• DAAT

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Postvention activity

• Advertising the Suicide Liaison Service to bereaved families
• Supporting schools and colleges where children of the bereaved

may attend

• Providing advice and guidance to work places where the bereaved

has worked

• Notifying and supporting GP practices
• Identifying an cluster/contagion activity and working with specific

at-risk groups

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Multi-Agency Suicide Prevention Group

Multi-Agency Suicide Prevention Group (MSPG)

• CCG
• CFT
• CRCC
• D&A Action Team (& Addaction)
• D&C Police
• Educational Psychology
• GP Lead for Suicide Prevention
• Healthwatch
• Healthy Cornwall
• Inclusion Cornwall
• OSW (IAPT)
• Public Health England
• RCHT
• Samaritans
• Service users
• Suicide Liaison Service
• Psychiatric Liaison
• Valued Lives

Drugs and alcohol services British Transport Police Network Rail Housing associations Benefits Advisers Armed forces Schools, colleges & universities Faith leaders Social services Employers Public health Emergency services Prisons and probation

Police & Crime Commissioners

Primary care including G P’s Job Centre Plus Police Crisis Care Concordat network Coroner’s

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People affected by suicide Health and care providers CCG’s Careers’

• rganisations

Community & voluntary sector

Suicide Prevention Partnership

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Suicide Prevention Action Plan

• Suicide data and postvention
• Inpatients – Towards Zero initiatives embedded into CFT work
• Communications and digital – working with media colleagues around reporting
• Communities – Farming, fishermen, teachers
• Training – 1000s of people attended ASIST, SafeTalk, SuicideTalk, MHFA
• Healthy Workplaces – mental wellbeing/ill health awareness, MHFAs,

preparedness package

• High-risk groups; bereaved, unemployed, D&A dependent etc.
• High-risk locations – signage, Training,
• Reducing access to means
• Suicide safer Primary Care*
• Improving support after self-harm*
• Get Set to Go*
• Personal Safety Planning*
• Live life to the full*
• *NHS England funded projects

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What more can we do?

Anything specific to your area? Any groups/specific communities you think we should be working with? Any other questions?