About the Authors

Cathryn Rodway

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cathryn.a.rodway@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Saied Ibrahim

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jodie Westhead

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Lana Bojanić

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Pauline Turnbull

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Louis Appleby

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Andy Bacon

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Armed Forces Team, NHS England, London, United Kingdom, Westminster Centre for Research in Veterans, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

Harriet Dale

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Defence, Defence Statistics Health, Bristol, United Kingdom

Kate Harrison

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Defence, Defence Statistics Health, Bristol, United Kingdom

Nav Kapur

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PT, LA and NK are contracted by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to deliver the Mental Health Clinical Outcome Review Programme (MHCORP); LA is the Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group (England), Department of Health and Social Care; NK is a member of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group (England), Department of Health and Social Care and chaired the 2022 guideline development group for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) depression in adults’ guidelines and was the a topic advisor for the 2022 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) self-harm guidelines. Members of the study team (KH, and HD and AB) were are employees of the MoD and NHSE at the time of the study.