NHS England’s Staying Safe from Suicide: Best practice guidance e-learning session is now available for all mental health practitioners across the country.

This e-learning session is designed to complement our Staying Safe from Suicide Guidance, launched in April 2025.  The e-learning session will support all mental health practitioners to provide consistent, high-quality approaches to suicide risk assessment and management across the entire mental health sector.

This evidence-based training is grounded in NICE 2022 guidance and aligns with the Government’s 5-year Cross Sector National Suicide Prevention Strategy.

The e-learning session is specifically designed for mental health practitioners working in the NHS as well as in private, voluntary, and charity care settings.  Registering and signing up to complete the e-learning is simple and is available to all colleagues.

The session provides practical, evidence-based guidance on how to approach and support people to stay safe from suicide. It features case study-based exercises that allow practitioners to develop their knowledge and apply the guidance in real-world scenarios. The training covers the key principles of the Staying Safe from Suicide guidance launched earlier this year, and explains the evidence behind the approach, and provides clear implementation strategies.

Participants will learn how to deliver the guidance effectively in their daily work and service delivery, regardless of their specific role or setting.

We would recommend including this e-learning session in your safety assessment / safety planning and suicide prevention training in your organisation.

People with a learning disability are often reliant on family and carers to help them manage their needs and support them to access services. They also experience greater health inequalities compared to the general population.

Caring for People with a Learning Disability elearning is available on the NHS Learning Hub, offering support for paid and unpaid carers. This free online training programme aims to reduce preventable causes of ill health for people with learning disabilities. Developed by the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership in collaboration with NHS England, it comprises four sessions which have been selected as important areas of learning:

• Constipation – advice and support to manage this common health issue. Carers can also access NHS England’s constipation resources, which aim to support people with a learning disability, their carers and people who work in primary care.
• Spotting the signs that someone is becoming poorly – Supporting people to understand and inform the right person at the right time when someone with a learning disability is becoming unwell
• Annual health checks – people with a learning disability from the age of 14 can attend a full, examination to make sure that there are no undiagnosed health issues.
• Reasonable adjustments – reasonable adjustments are required under the Equality Act to help ensure that people who have a disability get the right support to be able to access health services. This session will help carers to gain a good understanding of what reasonable adjustments are and what you can do to support people to get these put in place.

Find out more and access the elearning for free by visiting Caring for People with a Learning Disability on the NHS Learning Hub.