70% rise in incidence of self harm in teenagers

Half of adolescents who die by suicide have a history of self harm. And in the UK, the rates of adolescents who commit suicide jumped from 3.2, to 5.4 per 100 000 between 2010 and 2015. The national suicide prevention strategy recently expanded its scope by aiming to reduce self harm rates as a common precursor to suicide. Therefore it's important that we have an accurate measure of rates of self harm in the population, and new research published on bmj.com aims to do that. To discuss we're joined by one of the authors of that paper - Navneet Kapur, professor of psychiatry and population health at the University of Manchester. Read the full research: http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j4351