Safety Planning

A Suicide Safety Plan is a suicide prevention clinical intervention which seeks to raise self-awareness and social connections, restrict access to suicide means and improve problem solving and coping skills for individuals.

They are collaborative in nature, between the individual, health practitioner and, where possible, a significant other (e.g. family member, friend, neighbour).

The suicide safety plan and been co-produced with service users and staff. It builds upon the international scientific evidence base of previous suicide safety plans and extends the design to include ‘problem solving’, ‘reasons for living’ and ‘hope generation’ elements.

The evaluation, conducted by ARISE, demonstrated that the Suicide Safety Plan was feasible, acceptable and safe to implement into clinical practice and made recommendations to aid future clinical implementation iterations.

Funding has been secured via the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (LCCG) Research Capability Fund (RCF) to undertake a systematic review of international literature regarding suicide safety plans. The results of this systematic review will inform the design and implementation of a planned randomised controlled trial.