Nick Clegg on the Andrew Marr Show. He is promising to sign the NHS up to a national 'zero suicide' campaign. Photograph: Handout/Getty Images

Nick Clegg on the Andrew Marr Show. He is promising to sign the NHS up to a national ‘zero suicide’ campaign.
Photograph: Handout/Getty Images

This is some serious institutional support for combating suicide in the U.K. Interestingly enough, here’s a key bit from the article about what was done in a U.S. City where tough economic times took a toll on mental health.

“Some organisations in Merseyside, the east of England and the south-west have already adapted methods from a programme to combat depression in Detroit, in the US, where suicides were sharply reduced from 89 per 100,000 in 2001 to as low as zero among the patient population over the decade.

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