Free Suicide Mitigation Training for GPs and Primary Care Staff

Now available via Webinar!

Delivered by a CPSL Mind Trainer and GP, Dr Sophie Redlin, the Connecting with People training by 4Mental Health will provide your practice staff with:

  • An understanding of suicidal thinking & compassionate response
  • A clinical tool that will enable you to assess and triage a suicidal patient
  • The ability to co-produce a safety plan with a patient to support them to stay safe
  • The opportunity to ‘speak the same language’ as other services trained in using this tool, such as CPFT and FRS.

Suicide Awareness and Response for Primary Care 

Section 1: Suicide Awareness for Primary Care – Suitable for all primary care practice staff (1.5 hours)

  • Promotes a role for ALL in suicide prevention
  • Suitable for professionals and community members
  • Develops understanding & compassion
  • Introduces concept that suicide is not inevitable – ambivalence and interruption
  • Develops common language between community, services and those in distress
  • Develops a compassionate approach for demanding and time-pressured environments
  • Equips delegates to use the resources provided to signpost to appropriate support
  • Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how make their own Safety Plan

Over 200 GPs across the CCG have already completed the training. Feedback has been incredibly positive:

  • ‘Outstanding: concise, efficient, enabling’
  • ‘Applicable in my day to day practice as a GP’
  • ‘Will change my practice’

Please note that we can only accept bookings from those working in Cambridgeshire.