Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence

The consultation closes at 5pm on 1 March 2022

How to comment

1. Register your organisation or comment as an individual

If you’re commenting for an organisation, your organisation needs to be registered as a stakeholder.

Not eligible? Contact the stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.

We can accept comments from individuals. These will be considered, but you won’t get a formal response and they won’t be posted on the NICE website. Wherever possible we encourage you to submit your comments through a registered stakeholder organisation.

2. Read the consultation documents

Documents to comment on:

• Draft guideline– just the recommendations
• Evidence reviews
• Evidence review A– Information and support needs of people who have self-harmed
• Evidence review B– Information and support for families and carers of people who have self-harmed
• Evidence review C – Consent, confidentiality and safeguarding
• Evidence review D - Involving family and carers in the management of people who have self-harmed
• Evidence review E - assessment in non-specialist settings
• Evidence review F- assessment in specialist settings
• Evidence review G - risk assessment and formulation
• Evidence review H - admission to hospital
• Evidence review I– initial after-care
• Evidence review J – psychological and psychosocial interventions
• Evidence review K – pharmacological interventions
• Evidence review L– harm minimisation strategies
• Evidence review M – therapeutic risk-taking strategies
• Evidence review N – supporting people to be safe after self-harm
• Evidence review O – safer prescribing
• Evidence review P– skills required by staff in specialist settings
• Evidence review Q– supervision required for staff in specialist mental health settings
• Evidence review R– skills required by staff in non-specialist settings
• Evidence review S – supervision required for staff in non-specialist settings
• Evidence review T - models of care for people who have self-harmed
• Supporting documentation 1 – Methods
• Supporting documentation 2– Glossary
• Supporting documentation 3 – NGA team
• Economic models

If you want to review the economic models, please see 5. Economic models below and fill in the confidentiality form.

Other information about the consultation

• Equality impact assessment 3
• Committee member list and register of interests
• Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved

3. Add your comments

• You must use this comments form.
• You must declare any links with, or funding from, the tobacco industry

If you share similar views with another organisation, send a joint response.

Make sure you consider:

• The areas that will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement
• How to help users overcome challenges

Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved suggests some other areas to comment on.

4. Email the form to us

Email: Selfharm@nice.org.uk

Deadline: 5pm on 1 March 2022

5. Economic models

The developer has produced economic models to support the guideline on self harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence. To receive an executable version of the models, please submit a request to selfharm@nice.org.uk with a signed copy of the confidentiality acknowledgement and undertaking form.

We will then send you a link to an executable version of the economic model by email. The deadline for returning your comments is the same as for the guideline consultation: 5pm on 1 March 2022.