NSPA Conference 2020

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Plenary sessions

• Speaking from his own words – Steve Gilbert, Serious Mental Illness Living Experience Consultant
• Update on the national strategy – Professor Louis Appleby, National Director for Mental Health in England and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester
• From national strategy to local plans: Sector led improvement approach progress – Jacqui Morrissey, Assistant Director, Research & Influencing, Samaritans & Jim McManus, Vice President, Association of Directors of Public Health
• Reflections on progress of the cross-government workplan and some ideas for the future – Gregor Henderson, Public Health Strategic Advisor, Public Health England and Chair of National Suicide Prevention Strategy Delivery Group
• Effective emergency service employee health and wellbeing support – Mark Thomas, Group Manager, Prevention, Community Risk Management, Merseyside Fire and Rescue
  • Film: Merseyside emergency services (password: merseyfire)
  • Film: Mind blue light joint emergency service from Wirral Mind
• Learning lessons from every suicide: Barnsley’s suspected suicide learning panel – Phil Ainsworth, Public Health Senior Practitioner, Barnsley Council
• Speaking from his own experience – David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS; Chair, Haringey Suicide Prevention Group

Morning workshops

• Re framing and Re energising suicide prevention on the Sussex coast using design methods: East Sussex County Council and the Design Council
• Working with schools to implement suicide prevention activities: Norfolk County Council
• Self harm in high risk groups and suicide prevention, recent evidence from the Multicentre study of self-harm England: University of Manchester and Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Patient and Public Involvement in a PHD research project exploring self-harm in older adults: Keele University
• Setting up and delivering a local suicide bereavement service: Lifecraft
• Building a network, establishing successful multi-agency partnership working to support cross-system delivery of suicide prevention plans: North East and North Cumbria Suicide Prevention Network

Afternoon workshops

• The art of the possible – Partnership working to make public/commercial spaces safer: Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford Samaritans and Landsec
  • Guidance on suicide awareness and prevention for the retail industry
• Practise Hope – bringing about a culture change in primary care practices to help 10-25 year olds with thoughts of  suicide of self harm: Olly’s Future and Health Education England (Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
  • • Film: The case for a change in the NICE guideline on anti-depressant prescribing

• Role of the general practitioner in the management of self harm behaviour in primary care: Keele University
• Exploring ways to communicate with men using creative, arts based story telling and lived experience: Coventry City Council, South Warwickshire CCG and Warwickshire County Council
• Delivering an NHS-led bereavement support service: Support After Suicide Partnership and South West London Health & Care Partnership
• Suicide prevention across an integrated care system: Barnsley Council and Health and Care working Together in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw ICS