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Collecting suicide statistics for the severely mentally ill

Department of Psychiatry, Rotherham District General Hospital, Moorgate Road, Rotherham S60 2UD

Since the Health of the Nation government document (Department of Health, 1992) set the forget for the reduction of suicide in the severely mentally ill by 33% by the year 2000 it has become necessary to collect the suicide data for this population of patients of district and national level. There are a range of problems concerning the definition and identification of patients with severe mental illness as well as problems concerning the compilation of suicide data for this population of district level.