MindEd Staying Safe from Suicide: Best practice guidance
Course Overview
All Staff please note:
The Staying Safe from Suicide Guidance was published by NHS England on 4th April 2025. It promotes a compassionate, holistic, person centred approach to suicide prevention and shifts away from unreliable risk prediction and tick-box tools. It emphasises collaborative assessment, formulation, and safety planning grounded in a biopsychosocial framework with strong therapeutic relationships and involvement of trusted others.
The elearning training to support this guidance was launched in September 2025 via MindEd / e Learning for Healthcare. All mental health practitioners across the NHS, private and voluntary sectors are encouraged to apply the principles of the guidance with training, culture change, and continuous learning.