Publication - Strategy/plan

Suicide prevention action plan: every life matters

Published: 9 August 2018
Directorate: Population Health Directorate
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781788519984

The new action plan has been designed to continue the work from the 2013-2016 suicide prevention strategy and the strong downward trend in suicide rates in Scotland.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/deaths/suicides/list-of-tables-and-chart

2 http://www.chooselife.net/

3 https://www.seemescotland.org/

4 http://breathingspace.scot/

5 https://www.scottishrecovery.net/

6 http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2013/12/7616

7 http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2002/12/15873/14466

8 https://www.dbi.scot/

9 https://www.samaritans.org/sites/default/files/kcfinder/files/SPR%20final%20WEB.pdf

10 https://www.samaritans.org/sites/default/files/kcfinder/files/SPR%20final%20WEB.pdf

11 Any action related to social media and online resources should be considered in the context that telecommunications and internet services are reserved to the UK Parliament.

12 See page 51 at https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Public-Health/Publications/2017-11-14/2017-11-14-ScotSID-Report.pdf

13 https://www.samaritans.org/dying-from-inequality/report

14 http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/23356.aspx

15 https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/media/1354/life-in-scotland-for-lgbt-young-people.pdf

16 http://www.cahru.org/content/03-publications/04-reports/hbsc_nr14_interactive_final.pdf

17 https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Public-Health/Publications/2017-11-14/2017-11-14-ScotSIDReport.pdf

18 http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuicideprevention/nci

19 https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/deaths/suicides/ the-definition-of-the-statistics

20 http://www.scotpho.org.uk/health-wellbeing-and-disease/suicide/key-points

21 http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/suicidereviews.aspx

22 https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng53/chapter/Recommendations

23 https://cks.nice.org.uk/self-harm