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The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

The Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) Act (Scotland) 2007 places a number of duties on local education authorities including ensuring that schools are health promoting. This includes promoting physical, social, mental and emotional wellbeing by supporting pupils to make positive lifestyle choices in relation to their health and wellbeing. All adults who work in schools have a responsibility to support and develop mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. It is for the local authority and schools to decide how to develop their own approaches to ensure staff have the appropriate skills to implement Curriculum for Excellence, based on local needs and circumstances.

This information is not held centrally.

The Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) Act (Scotland) 2007 places a number of duties on local education authorities including ensuring that schools are health promoting. This includes promoting physical, social, mental and emotional wellbeing by supporting pupils to make positive lifestyle choices in relation to their health and wellbeing. All adults who work in schools have a responsibility to support and develop mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. It is for the local authority and schools to decide how to develop their own approaches to implement Curriculum for Excellence, based on local needs and circumstances. Whilst an authority may wish to provide access to school based counselling in their schools, in other areas, schools utilise the skills of their pastoral care or guidance staff and liaise with health services for specialist support when required. Every school has a named contact in specialist Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service services who can be contacted for advice if they have any concerns about a pupil and can provide ongoing support.

In excess of £70 million has been spent on the Keep Well programme since it began in 2006.

This information is not held centrally.

For the purposes of this question the post discharge period has been defined as within 90 days of discharge from either acute or psychiatric hospitals in Scotland.

Table 1: Number of Scottish residents¹ who died from suicide^2,3,4 within 90 days of their last hospital discharge^5,6 which was from a medical facility in a different NHS board from the one in which they live^7.8, 2005-06 to 2012-13⁹. The latest year for which information is currently available.

1. Scottish residents are defined as patients with a recorded Scottish NHS board area. Excludes patients with no fixed abode and whose address is unknown.

2. Suicide deaths are recorded by National Records of Scotland.

3. Suicides are defined using the ICD10 codes X60-X84, Y87.0, Y10-Y34 and Y87.2.

4. Only suicides registered within Scotland are included.

5. Acute inpatient and day case activity is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 01 (SMR01) and psychiatric inpatient and day case activity is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04). SMR01 and SMR04 are linked to allow patient based analysis across the two datasets. This analysis includes discharges from either SMR01 or SMR04.

6. In order to avoid including hospital treatment due to the suicide itself and instead look at the previous hospital stay, only the last recorded inpatient or day case discharge from either SMR01 or SMR04, where the patient was recorded as discharged to a private or temporary residence or institution, was used. This excludes discharges where the patient was transferred to another medical speciality or died.

7. If a patient had more than one inpatient or day case discharge in the 90 days prior to their suicide death, only the last discharge has been looked at for this analysis. If their last discharge was in their own NHS board but all their previous ones were in a different NHS board they will not appear in this table.

8. Where the data was assigned to a non-NHS provider, patients were allocated to an NHS board based on the location of the facility they were treated in.

9. Cases were allocated to a financial year by the date of death.

Source: SMR04 (psychiatric inpatient and day case database)

All NHS boards have been providing a Keep Well service since 2010.

The provision and resourcing of talking therapies within mental health service provision funding is provided from within the overall resources available this year for healthcare and local government with NHS boards and councils responsible for local decision making and delivery.

In addition, £85 million funding for mental health was announced on 24 May 2015. This follows the £15 million over three years announced in November 2014 for the Mental Health Innovation Fund providing £100 million in total. This funding will be invested in improving mental health services.

*This includes funds provided, via NHS boards, for Keep Well in community pharmacies and in prisons.