Emergency Services: Training
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of mandatory suicide prevention training for emergency service workers.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
Significant work is underway to strengthen the quality and consistency of training across the system.
On 4 April, NHS England published Staying safe from suicide: Best practice guidance for safety assessment, formulation and management to support the Government’s work to reduce the number of lives lost to suicide and improve mental health services. The guidance requires all mental health practitioners to align their practice to the latest evidence in suicide prevention, and it is available at the following link:
www.england.nhs.uk/publication/staying-safe-from-suicide
The NHS England Medium Term Planning Framework states that in 2026/27, all integrated care boards must ensure mental health practitioners across all providers undertake training and deliver care in line with the Staying safe from suicide guidance.
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