study<\/strong><\/a> published in The Lancet Regional Health \u2013 Europe, lead author our Prof Louis Appleby and co-authored by Nicola Richards, Dr Saied Ibrahim, Dr Pauline Turnbull, Cathryn Rodway and Prof Nav Kapur. Using data from real time surveillance (RTS) systems in areas covering a total population of around 13 million, suicide rates in England did not rise following the first national lockdown in 2020 despite higher levels of greater distress. It is vital to note these are early figures and there may be increases in suicides in some populations or geographical areas. There is still concern about the longer-term effects of the pandemic, particularly economic stresses<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) send regular updates on COVID-19 Support. See below some useful new publications sent on 20th April 2021:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-more.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}