Every year in England there are nearly 5,000 suicides and an estimated 200,000 hospital attendances following self-harm ('attempted suicide').

The overall aim of our research is to provide new evidence to help prevent suicide and improve the care of people who self-harm. The programme was developed in response to three key issues identified in the National Suicide Prevention Strategy 2012:

• The adverse impact of the economic crisis on suicide
• Improving the care of people who self-harm
• Identifying and reducing access to high-lethality methods of suicide.

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