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Suicide Prevention: identifying and responding to suicide clusters

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A new toolkit prepared by Professor Keith Hawton and his team at the Oxford University Centre for Suicide Prevention is published by Public Health England

To coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day, Public Health England have published a new practice toolkit for people with responsibility for suicide prevention in local authorities and their partner agencies.

Professor Keith Hawton from the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry led the creation of this resource.

Read more (Department of Psychiatry website)

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