February 3, 2012

mental health service recommendations in the NHS and suicide rates

Speakers:
Prof Nav Kapur, Prof of Psychiatry and Population Health, University of Manchester
Prof Louis Appleby, Prof of Psychiatry, University of Manchester

The SMC hosted the launch of a 10-year study of mental health service recommendations in the NHS, and the effect the implementation of these recommendations has had on suicide rates across England and Wales. The authors of the report, published in the Lancet, included the National Clinical Director for Health and Criminal Justice Professor Louis Appleby.