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Helen YeoHealth Improvement Specialist Advanced (Healthy
Communities)
South West Zero Suicide Collaboration
Lee Colwill Service Improvement Manager (Mental
Health & Dementia)
Vision
“To reduce suicides to zero across the south west of England by October 2018”
Food for thought: Could people make this pledge in North Somerset?
South West Zero Suicide Collaborative stakeholders
• People with lived experience
• Clinical Commissioning Groups
• Area Teams
• General practice
• Providers of secondary Mental Health Services
• Third sector organisations
• Samaritans
• Police service
• Ambulance service
• Academic Health Science Networks
• Local Authorities
• Coroner’s office• Children’s services• Public Health
Henry Ford Health System• A program for patients with depression resulted in two and a half
years without a single suicide• 75% reduction in the suicide rate amongst patients. lower than
the annual rates for suicides in similar patient populations.
InterventionsSome of the performance improvements in the program include:
• Establish a consumer advisory panel to help with the design of the program.
• Establish a protocol to assign patients into one of three levels of risk for suicide, each of which requires specific intervention.
• Provide training for all psychotherapists to develop competency in Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
• Implement a protocol for having patients remove weapons from the home.
Interventions continued• Establish three means of access for patients: drop-in group medication appointments, advanced (same-day) access to care or support and e-mail visits.
• Develop a website for patients to educate and assist patients.
• Require staff to complete a suicide prevention course.
• Set up a system for staff members to check in on patients by phone.
• Partner and educate the patient's family members
What is different
If zero is not the right goal, then what is?
