Bipolar Disorder: Suicide

(asked on 12th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle the high suicide rate among people with bipolar disorder.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

Under the NHS Long Term Plan, we are introducing new models of care which will, by 2023/24, give 370,000 adults with a severe mental illness such as bipolar disorder greater choice and control over their care and support them to live well in their communities. We are also investing £57million in suicide prevention through the Plan.

On 27 March, we published our COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan, backed by £500 million to support people’s mental health in 2021/22. £58 million of this will be used to accelerate the community mental health framework to treat adults with severe mental illness. The recovery action plan also includes £6 million to boost support for specific suicide prevention work, with £1 million for NHS England and NHS Improvement’s work on suicide prevention and £5 million to support voluntary sector organisations that prevent suicide in the community.

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