Safeguarding and Suicide – trying to end it all.

By |2021-03-29T11:38:40+01:00December 3rd, 2018|Adult Psychiatry, Depression|

  ‘Died by suicide’ is the term we tend to use nowadays. The old fashioned way, saying that someone ‘committed’ suicide, implies that a crime has taken place - which has not been true since The Suicide Act of 1961 ...read more

She had the lot …. so why would a millionaire lawyer kill herself?

By |2021-03-29T11:52:23+01:00August 4th, 2017|Adult Psychiatry|

Every now and again you see a report in a newspaper. There was one a few years ago that always comes to mind for me, a seemingly happily married and successful lawyer with three young children who threw herself in ...read more

Zero Suicide: Mental Health’s Big Hairy Audacious Goal?

By |2023-01-24T15:49:05+00:00March 5th, 2017|Adult Psychiatry|

In their book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, the authors Collins and Porras coined the term Big Hairy Audacious Goal (2016). This describes a visionary medium term organisational goal which is compelling, stretches the workforce but is ...read more

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