National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide Blog Posts

• Midlife women: self-harm and suicide are not interchangeable

  02 Mar 2026

  • Rachel Gibbons

  
• Domestic violence and suicide in women: insights from a national UK study

  18 Nov 2025

  • Filip Marzecki

  
• Mental disorder and homicide: are rates and sentencing patterns changing?

  31 Jan 2023

  • Danny Whiting

  
• Are homeless people more likely to die by suicide?

  02 Aug 2021

  • Ian Cummins

  
• The weekend effect in mental health services: new evidence suggests no increased risk of suicide, inpatient mortality or seclusion

  02 Dec 2016

  • Laura Hemming

  
• Mondays and New Year’s Day associated with peaks in suicide incidence

  12 Apr 2016

  • Emily Stapley

  
• Suicide during the perinatal period

  15 Mar 2016

  • Katrina Witt

  
• Fewer patients kill themselves in mental health units, but there are bigger benefits to home care

  18 Jul 2014

  • John McGowan

  
• Suicide in primary care: findings of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness

  11 Apr 2014

  • Ian Cummins

  
• We ignore the rise of suicide in people with mental illness

  20 Aug 2013

  • Ian Cummins