My focus is ENTIRELY on improving practical suicide prevention in the UK. I was previously Chief Executive of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and had a career working with children and young people in health and social care. I now work part time.

The focus of my Fellowship will be on those who attempt suicide and those who work with them. I am a Samaritan and previously completed a doctorate on those discharged from mental hospitals into the community.

As a result of looking at practice in Sweden, I hope to help Samaritans to improve responses to suicide and to bring social prescribing into the armoury of signposting tools, to assist those contemplating suicide.