Edinburgh Choose Life Steering Group | |
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Ensure LAP is monitored and local agencies involved in ongoing development of the plan. |
Desired Outcomes
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- Ensure Steering Group is meeting regularly and acts as key information exchange for lead agencies in the city.
- Ensure LAP is monitored and local agencies involved in ongoing development of the plan.
- Key role in local co-ordination.
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Relevance to Choose Life's Key Areas Of Work
| | Supporting the improved co-ordination of efforts by local agencies to develop and implement local suicide prevention action plans. |
Choose Life Objectives
| - Early prevention and intervention
- Responding to immediate crisis
- Longer term work to provide hope and support recovery
- Coping with suicidal behaviour and completed suicide
- Promoting more public awareness and encouraging people to seek help early
- Supporting the media
- Knowing what works
| Choose Life Priority Groups
| All local statutory, health, voluntary agencies & self help groups
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Partners In Delivery
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- Edinburgh City Council
- NHS Lothian
- Choose Life Coordinator
- Lothian & Borders Police
- Edinburgh Carers Council
- Edinburgh Users Forum
- Voluntary Sector
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In Kind Support Received
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No charge for meeting rooms by either CEC or NHS Lothian.
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Evaluation Tools/Methods
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Awareness of Choose Life in the City. Specific Evaluation of the effectiveness and usefulness of planned conference.
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Contact Details
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Christina Naismith
Royal Edinburgh Hospital
McKinnon House
Morningside Place
Edinburgh
EH10 5HF
Tel: 0131 537 6254
christina.naismith@lpct.scot.nhs.uk
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