Professor Nav Kapoor
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One of the difficulties with statistics on suicide is that generally when a suicide death tragically occurs, that needs investigating by a coroner.
And then that gets fed through to the Office of National Statistics.
So typically there's a six to 12 month lag.
So we don't have official data on suicides.
Obviously, in a situation like the pandemic, we have to think about other ways of doing this.
And one of the other ways we can look at this is by using something called real-time surveillance, where actually people will go directly to the coroners or to local police and to get information on possible suicide deaths, more or less kind of in real time.
And that's one of the things that we did in collaboration with six areas of the country.
Well, the estimate tells us there wasn't an increase.
So when we compare the period January to March 2020 with the period April to August 2020...
The number of suicide deaths in those areas was roughly the same.
So pre-lockdown it was 84, post-lockdown it was 85.
And it's really important when we're talking about suicide statistics that we remember that, you know, behind every number there's an individual with a family.
So each death is an individual tragedy, but we didn't see an increase post-lockdown compared with pre-lockdown.
We did that as well.
And there, the figures for this year were a little bit higher.
They were about 7% higher.
We didn't make that the main focus of our analysis for two reasons, really.
This data collection is in many ways kind of experimental.
So you might expect a kind of slight year-on-year increase because people are getting better at collecting the data.
And the other reason is the fact that the suicide rates in general did rise in 2018 and 2019.
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