New measures to help suicide prevention
• Director for mental health in the North to be appointed
• Telephone helpline and buddying/mentor scheme to be set up in north and west Belfast
• Psychological profile of deaths by suicide in north and west Belfast and Banbridge (which also has high rate of youth suicide) to be commissioned
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• Depression awareness programme for doctors to be set up
• Community support package to be funded
• All-Ireland co-operation to be developed
• Consultation on need for more psychiatrists and mental health nurses to take place
• Trauma centre to be set up for north and west Belfast
• New facilities in Craigavon and Derry and new adolescent in-patient unit to be built by 2008