About the Authors
- Sarah Steeg
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
- Keith Hawton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Nav Kapur
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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.