Samaritans charity calls on government to invest in suicide prevention as it has with smoking reduction
Ministers have been urged to treat suicide as a public health crisis after the rate at which people killed themselves in, described by the suicide prevention charity Samaritans as “worse than expected”, showed 6,069 suicides were registered in the two nations in 2023, up from 5,642 in 2022 and the highest rate since 1999., but the female suicide rate reached its highest level since 1994, according to the annual Office for National Statistics figures.
We know what works to prevent suicide. What we need now in England from ministers is the money and commitment to do it | Julie BentleyJacqui Morrissey, the assistant director of influencing at Samaritans, said: “Based on these figures, over 900 people will have died by suicide in the 55 days since the new government took power but while we immediately heard about plans for more wind turbines, it is suicide prevention that has been left blowing in the wind.
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