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Switching Perceptions - Barbican

The acclaimed Switching Perceptions exhibition, showing artwork and concepts which were created in collaboration with people experiencing psychosis, will be on show at the Barbican.

Suicide prevention and intervention - World Mental Health Day

Today, 10th October is the Thames Valley Suicide Prevention Conference in Reading from the Thames Valley Suicide Prevention and Intervention Network (SPIN). Professor Keith Hawton, Director of the Centre for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, will be chairing the event.

2nd Course on Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: 16-18 March 2020

Led by Professor Andrea Cipriani, this course is specifically designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health professionals, pharmacists and researchers in neuroscience and related disciplines.

7th Course in Network Meta-Analysis: 22-24 June 2020

Led by Professor Andrea Cipriani, this 3-day interactive course will help participants to understand, write and critically appraise a network meta-analysis. It is aimed at clinicians, researchers and policy makers.

More attention to patients' needs important to prevent suicide after presentation to hospital for self-harm

A study spanning 16 years including nearly 50,000 patients who presented to five general hospitals across England on more than 90,000 occasions following self-harm has shown that suicide risk was very high compared to the general populations in the year following the hospital visits, and even more so in the first month.