Brighter Futures began delivering a new Self-Harm Support and Recovery service (SHSR) in October 2019, in order to support people in Staffordshire living with self-harm and/or suicidal thoughts.
The service is funded by Public Health England as part of their Suicide Prevention Strategy, with funding awarded to Brighter Futures by the Clinical Commissioning Group.
The review draws on project documents and monitoring information, in-depth interviews conducted with nine customers, shorter group/individual discussions with a further five customers, observations of a group workshop and a social session, interviews with project staff and three professionals in referring agencies (the mental health Access Team, the hospital-based Psychiatric Liaison team, and a Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN)), and information provided by 20 customers about their use of GP and
A&E services.
