Suicide: Next of Kin

(asked on 1st April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department takes to support the close relatives of suicide victims.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 9th April 2019

Providing better information and support to people bereaved by suicide is a key area for action in the Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy for England, and the NHS Long Term Plan has committed to put in place suicide bereavement support for families and staff working in mental health crisis services in every area of the country.

Relatives may access support for bereavement through Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services. People can either self-refer, or be referred for a clinical assessment of their needs.

Bereavement counselling is available to people at any time, even if the person that someone lost died a long time ago, through their local general practitioner or by self-referring to national Cruse Bereavement Care.

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