National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH)
In-patient Suicide Under Observation
NCISH / University of Manchester 2015
http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuicideprevention/nci/reports/ipobsreport.pdf
I'm still reading this report. There should be no suicides whilst under observation by mental health nurses. Statistically damning.
Failing Mental Health Services in the UK is a blog written by an ex-mental health voluntary sector worker who is also a carer for a long term sufferer of mental illness. Links to news articles. Personal experiences and observations.
Saturday, 23 January 2016
Teenager failed by CAMHS (Mail Online 4.12.15)
Fostered teenager killed herself after 'being raped by an older man', breaking up with her boyfriend and being called the wrong name when she met her drunken birth father
Daily Mail Online, 4 December 2015
“Her adoptive parents, Carol and Ann Holmes, now feel she was ‘let down’ by social services, after she killed herself in November 2013, just five days after being dismissed [by CAMHS] as not at 'immediate risk’.”
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