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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental health problems, drug and alcohol problems and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We deliver high quality care across our 140 services, all of which are registered with the Care Quality Commission. Individual treatment and support which helps people work towards recovery is at the heart of everything we do. Our services are provided in community settings, hospitals and residential homes with an emphasis on providing local treatment and support close to people’s homes wherever possible. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population.
Our work in suicide prevention
Our organisation’s role is to promote suicide prevention and provide early intervention to vulnerable people, using mental health services and offer support to the wider system and community while being kind, respectful and supportive of families that are bereaved.
Our current priorities
Our current priorities focus on reducing the risk of suicide in high-risk groups through targeted support initiatives and tailoring approaches to improve mental health in specific populations. We aim to reduce access to means of suicide, provide better information and support to those bereaved or affected by suicide, and work with the media to encourage sensitive reporting on suicide and suicidal behaviour. Additionally, we are committed to supporting research, data collection, and monitoring, as well as conducting suicide prevention audits to inform and improve our efforts.
Our current challenges
Achieving consistency in the context of the complex nature of the differing needs of individual people. Embedding a culture of positive risk taking to achieve positive outcomes. Managing the impact of a person’s suicide on all others close to that individual, including staff and family members.