Suicide and attempted suicide rates (FOI)Suicide and attempted suicide rates (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
22 July 2021.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please can you provide me with:
A
How many suicides there have been in Jersey between the following dates:
March 2016 to March 2017
March 2017 to March 2018
March 2018 to March 2019
March 2019 to March 2020
B
How many attempted suicides there have been in Jersey between the following dates:
March 2016 to March 2017
March 2017 to March 2018
March 2018 to March 2019
March 2019 to March 2020
Response
A
In Jersey, all suicides are certified by a Coroner (Viscounts department) following an inquest and cannot be formally registered until the inquest is completed. The inquest process can take a considerable period of time, therefore analysis of deaths by suicide conducted by Public Health is deferred for around 18 months to two years to allow for all suicides in a period to be registered and statistically coded by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
The annual mortality report for 2020 is scheduled to be completed and published by Public Health Intelligence later in 2021, although there is no definite date set at this time. The report will include suicide analysis based on deaths that occurred in 2018 and 2019, to account for delays in registration due to the inquest process.
Information on completed suicides up to 2017 is publically available in the Jersey Mortality Statistics 2018 report prepared by Statistics Jersey. Please see page 10 at the following link:
R Mortality Statistics 2018 20190926 SJ.pdf (gov.je)
Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.
B
The below table shows the count of attendances at the Emergency Department where the diagnosis category is recorded as `Attempted Suicide’
Year | Count of Attendances |
| 2016 | 27 |
| 2017 | 34 |
| 2018 | 39 |
| 2019 | 35 |
| 2020 | 41 |
| 2021 Quarter 1 | 7 |
Articles applied
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