Investigating suicide attempts and suicides that occur in social and health care settings

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health take it upon itself to ensure that a harmonised operating model for the investigation of patient and client suicides and suicide attempts is introduced across the whole of the social welfare and health care system and kept up to date. Any lessons learned from investigations that could help to improve safety must be shared across and between well-being services counties as part of the efforts to continu-ously improve the standard of safety management and the implementation of the national patient and client safety strategy.