NHS gives its backing to new suicide prevention campaign

National website launched as part of initiative

- IAN BUNTING

NHS Lanarkshire is supporting Scotland’s new national suicide prevention public awareness campaign.

The initiative went live on the same day the Suicide Prevention Scotland's new website was launched.

The campaign is entirely co-produced by people with lived and living experience of suicide, professional and practice experience, and academic insight.

It features the voices of four people with lived and living experience of suicide, each of whom share their own deeply personal experiences.

The main theme of the campaign is to normalise the idea of having a conversation about suicide and to give people the confidence to ask directly about suicide.

Susan McMorrin, senior health promotion officer in public mental health, said: “NHS Lanarkshire is proud to support Scotland’s new national suicide prevention campaign and the launch of the Suicide Prevention Scotland website.