Keynote at the 2018 Suicide Prevention Australia conference in Adelaide, South Australia traces the story of Zero Suicide and highlights the champions who have led this breakout innovation. Suicide prevention has labored heroically to stand in the gap (like Leonidas' fateful Spartans) but we need a massive infusion of support, and Zero Suicide activates healthcare as a partner.
5. Errors Are
Costly
1986
CROSSING THE QUALITY CHASM
Better Care = Patient Experience
Safe Effective
Patient-Centered Timely
Efficient Equitable
Triple Aim of Healthcare Improvement
Better Health Better Care Better Value
1986
Don
Berwick
(USA)
7. 1996
Going to
War with
Suicide
David Litts
(USA) “[At the start] there was a lot of debate about whether or not it was even
possible to reduce suicide through this type of an effort,” according to David
Litts. “A lot of people, including mental health practitioners, were skeptical. But
over a six-year period, the suicide rate dropped by one-third.”
US Air Force Initiative
9. 2004
What was
actually
different?
Henry Ford Clinical Protocol
Package of Discrete Research-based Interventions
Known to Be Effective
Routine
Screening &
Assessment
Psychosocial
Treatment
Collaborative
Safety Planning
Follow-Up
2004
Justin
Coffey
(USA)
14. 2010
“Over the decades,
individual [mental
health] clinicians
have made heroic
efforts to save lives…
but systems of care
have done very
little.”
Forgotten
Patients
Richard
McKeon
(USA)
38. JENNA HEISE
Texas, USA
JAN ULRICH
Kentucky, USA
VIRNA LITTLE
New York, USA
FRED MESERVEY
New York, USA
PAUL SCHYVE
Joint Commission,
USA
DAVID JOBES
Catholic University,
USA
KATE COMTOIS
Seattle, USA
THOMAS JOINER
Florida State
University, USA
CHRIS DAMLE
Phoenix, Arizona
GREGOR
HENDERSON
London, UK
HELEN GARNHAM
London, UK
PAUL YIP
Hong Kong, China
ADRIAN JAMES
Exeter, UK
SALLY SPENCER-
THOMAS
Denver, USA
KEVIN HINES
Atlanta, USA
URSULA WHITESIDE
Seattle, USA