To mark World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2019, key organisations across Lambeth came together for an event hosted by Lambeth Together, to discuss how we call all have life-saving conversations.
In Lambeth, on average two of our residents die by suicide each month, with many more making suicide attempts.
Guys and St Thomas (GSTT) Transformation Team, Lambeth Council and CCG commissioners have been working together to help support and develop the commissioned community support (home care) providers.
Community health and social care teams are frequently supporting the same individual at home and should be able to contact each other easily in order to improve the service they are jointly providing.
A new service model for adult community mental health services has been put in place by the Living Well Network Alliance – the organisations in Lambeth working together to improve mental health services.
Three new Living Well Centres have been developed.
The Children and Young People Alliance will work to make Lambeth one of the best places in the world for children and young people to grow up. We have recently developed a plan to support this and one of the things in the plan is mental health support for children and young people.