The National Action Plan to Reduce Suicide and Self Harm in Wales

The Health Gain Target is to reduce the European Age Standardised rate by 10% from the baseline figure at 2002 by 2012.

It is recognised that many people who self harm are among those people at greatest risk of completing suicide. The plan therefore aims to identify and improve responses to people who self harm. This will assist in reducing the suicide rate but will also bring a significant health gain to people who self harm and to others at raised risk of suicide.