The database has been updated in response to comments from PCT's.
It is designed to assist Primary Care Trusts collecting information on suicides to inform local, regional and national suicide prevention strategies.
Aims of the Updated Audit toolkit remain as before:
1) To support Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and other bodies to
establish a system for suicide audit which fits their local context
2) To support the development of local suicide prevention strategies
3) To produce data which could potentially be merged at regional
and national levels to identify trends
Overview of the updated edition
This is a ready-made database for conducting suicide audit with a minimum of effort. It has been updated for April 2009 in response to comments from PCT's.
The names of the fields in the new database are the same as the previous editions to help people make a transition to this new edition.
PCT Suicide Audit Database 2009 EXAMPLE
This as a demonstration database. It includes 75 records of artificial but realistic data - any similarity with actual persons is co-incidental and unintentional.
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PCT Suicide Audit Database 2009 ACTUAL
Download this as a blank database ready for use for your actual audits.
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Related Guidance Documents
Suicide Audit Guidance (written for the original Peninsula Medical School edition >>>
Previous copies of the database
Whilst we have kept a copy of the original database that was designed by the Peninsula Medical School, we recommend the newer edition is used as it has built in queries and is easier to extract data.
These are provided only for those who may need a copy in order to repair / replace an existing database, we recommend that PCT's begining an audit use the new 2009 edition above.
The National Confidential Inquiry
The National Confidential Inquiry has been collecting data systematically since 1996 on people who have been in touch with secondary care mental health services in the 12 months prior to the suicide event. It therefore only captures approximately 25% of the suicides that occur. Although the NCI produces very informative on this group of people it tells us little about the rest of the population concerned.