A multi-centre programme of clinical and public health research in support of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England

These pages relate to the 2007-12 NIHR programme. The current programme can be accessed from the left-hand menu.

Every year in England there are over 4,000 suicides and 140,000 people go to hospital following self-harm ('attempted suicide').

The aim of this programme of research is to carry out a series of linked studies, the purpose of which is to:

• improve the management of self-harm
• reduce the incidence of suicide
• provide reliable data to evaluate the impact of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England (2002)

Read more about the research from the 2007-12 programme or download the final report NIHR Programme Final Report (PDF, 5,807kB)