About the Authors

Sarah Steeg

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

sarah.steeg@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Matthew Carr

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Richard Emsley

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Keith Hawton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Keith Waters

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention Research, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, United Kingdom

Harriet Bickley

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jennifer Ness

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention Research, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, United Kingdom

Galit Geulayov

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nav Kapur

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Mental Health and Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

D.G., K.H. and N.K. are members of the Department of Health’s (England) National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group. N.K. chaired the NICE guideline development group for the longer-term management of self-harm and the NICE Topic Expert Group (which developed the quality standards for self-harm services). He is currently chair of the updated NICE guideline for depression. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.