Please note, this page is under re-development, but various links and information are included below in the meantime.

• Mental health improvement, and prevention of self-harm and suicide pages on NHS Education for Scotland’s Turas Learn website

 

• ‘United to Prevent Suicide’ led by Suicide Prevention Scotland

 

• If a patient dies by suicide: A Resource for Psychiatrists provides information about dealing with suicide for psychiatrists of all levels, from trainees to experienced consultants.
  • This booklet and the survey that informed it were produced at the University of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research and endorsed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It was produced by a multidisciplinary group of clinicians and researchers, all of whom have experienced deaths of patients by suicide during their careers

 

• Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH) website page on ‘After a Suicide’ including a link to download their leaflet of the same name

 

• Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide – offering UK peer-led support to adults impacted by suicide loss

 

• Suicide Bereavement UK
  • From Grief to Hope Report, 2020
  • Immediate Support Resources

 

Suicide Bereavement Support Service

• This free service is for anyone living in the Highlands, Argyll and Bute or Ayrshire and Arran who is impacted by the loss of someone to suicide – this may be families, friends, children and young people. The service can be accessed if you live outside of the area, but where the bereavement happened in either the Highlands, Argyll and Bute or Ayrshire and Arran. 
• The service can be contacted on suicidebereavementsupport@nhs.scot or 0800 471 4768
• More information can be found at:

                           Change Mental Health

Penumbra Mental Health