The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales recently launched the new National Suicide Prevention Network to mark World Mental Health Day. The new programme will span every home nation and aim to drive down rates of suicide in the UK.
What will the new National Suicide Prevention Network do?
The National Suicide Prevention Network will be made of up four key mental health charities to represent England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They will act as founding partners and work in partnership with the UK’s biggest mental health support resource, the Hub of Hope.
The hope is that the network can continue to build and develop the progress that has already been made in this area to date, to understand the causes that drive people to consider suicide, to ensure that support is readily available to all who need it, and to build a strong collaborative approach to deliver the best possible services to those at risk.
Welcomed by partner bodies
The news has been welcomed by mental health charities and by providers of mental health training courses Blackpool, such as https://www.tidaltraining.co.uk/mental-health-training-courses/blackpool, who know that there is a huge amount of work and awareness-raising needed in the field of mental health training and suicide prevention.
The network will also be funded with over a million pounds in financial support by the Royal Foundation over three years. It will be chaired by leading suicide and self-harm expert, Professor Ann John. With over 7,000 deaths in the UK from suicide every year, the network is determined to drive change.
