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Professor Nav Kapur MBChB, MMedSc, FRCPsych, MD

Photograph of Nav Kapur

Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health

Centre for Suicide Prevention
Community Based Medicine
University Place
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

 

Role

Nav is Head of Research at the Centre for Suicide Prevention in the University. He is Assistant Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. He is chair of the School of Community Based Medicine Board.

Nav is Chair of the Guideline Development Group for the NICE self-harm guidelines (longer term management) and a member of the National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group (England).

He is also an Honorary Consultant in Psychiatry at the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust.

 

Research

Nav’s research focuses on the aetiology, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour. His main areas of research are:

• The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide which collects data on all individuals in the United Kingdom who have died by suicide and obtains detailed information from clinicians on all those who have had contact with mental health services in the year prior to death.

• The MaSH Project which collects data on all those who have harmed themselves (by self-poisoning or self-injury) and present to hospital services in the city of Manchester. He is also the Manchester lead for a multi-centre programme of work with colleagues in Oxford, Derby and Leeds

• NIHR Programme Grants. Nav jointly leads, with colleagues in Bristol and Oxford, a multi-centre programme of clinical and public health research in support of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England. The programme aims to examine outcomes in relation to current models of service provision, develop new interventions for suicidal behaviour, examine the impact of public health and prescribing interventions on suicidal behaviour, and give an insight into how we might best interpret recent trends in suicide.

He also leads the suicide component of an additional NIHR Programme Grant into Bipolar Disorder

• Suicidal behaviour in the military
A study of suicide in those who have left the UK Armed Forces

• Other research areas
- The medical management of overdose as a strategy to reduce suicide deaths
- Understanding geographical influences on rates of suicide
- Suicide and somatic illness
- Epidemiology of self-harm in the general population and population impact of risk factors.
- Developing comprehensive aetiological models of suicidal behaviour incorporating clinical, psychological and biological measures.
- The aetiology and treatment of abnormal illness behaviour.

Other academic activities

Nav acts as an expert reviewer for leading academic journals and grant giving bodies and has contributed to a number of clinical guidelines (such as NICE, WHO, and BAP guidelines). He is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He also acts as an expert advisor to the media on suicide and suicidal behaviour.

 

Biography

Nav is Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust.

He qualified in medicine from Leeds in 1992. He then trained as a psychiatrist in Leeds and Manchester. He was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader in Psychiatry at the University and took up his current post in 2008.

 

Qualifications

  • 1992 MB ChB, University of Leeds
  • 1996 MRCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • 1997 MMedSc University of Leeds
  • 2001 Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in General Adult Psychiatry with endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry
  • 2002 MD, University of Manchester
  • 2008 FRCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists
 

Publications

2012

  • Simkin, S., Hawton, K., Kapur, N. & Gunnell, D (2012). What can be done to reduce mortality from paracetamol overdoses? A patient interview study. QJM, 105(1), 41-51. eScholarID:147559 | PMID:21856743 | DOI:10.1093/qjmed/hcr135

2011

  • Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Kapur, N., Cooper, J., Steeg, S., Ness, J. & Waters, K (2011). Shared characteristics of suicides and other unnatural deaths following non-fatal self-harm? A multicentre study of risk factors. Psychol Med, 1-15. eScholarID:131601 | PMID:21910932 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291711001747
  • Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Waters, K., Ness, J., Cooper, J., Steeg, S. & Kapur, N (2011). How do methods of non-fatal self-harm relate to eventual suicide? J Affect Disord, eScholarID:146865 | PMID:22127391 | DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2011.10.036
  • Biddle, L., Gunnell, D., Owen-Smith, A., Potokar, J., Longson, D., Hawton, K., Kapur, N. & Donovan, J (2011). Information sources used by the suicidal to inform choice of method. J Affect Disord, eScholarID:146853 | PMID:22093678 | DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2011.10.004
  • Carroll, R., Hawton, K., Kapur, N., Bennewith, O. & Gunnell, D (2011). Impact of the growing use of narrative verdicts by coroners on geographic variations in suicide: analysis of coroners' inquest data. J Public Health (Oxf), eScholarID:146857 | PMID:22085685 | DOI:10.1093/pubmed/fdr091
  • Cooper, J., Hunter, C., Owen-Smith, A., Gunnell, D., Donovan, J., Hawton, K. & Kapur, N (2011). "Well it's like someone at the other end cares about you." A qualitative study exploring the views of users and providers of care of contact-based interventions following self-harm. Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 33(2), 166-76. eScholarID:131425 | PMID:21596210 | DOI:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.01.009
  • Gunnell D, Hawton K, Kapur N. (2011). Coroners' verdicts and suicide statistics in England and Wales. British Medical Journal, eScholarID:147565 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.d6030
  • Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Simkin, S., Arensman, E., Corcoran, P., Cooper, J., Waters, K., Gunnell, D. & Kapur, N (2011). Impact of different pack sizes of paracetamol in the United Kingdom and Ireland on intentional overdoses: a comparative study. BMC Public Health, 11, 460. eScholarID:146866 | PMID:21663604 | DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-11-460
  • Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Waters, K., Murphy, E., Cooper, J. & Kapur, N (2011). Impact of Withdrawal of the Analgesic Co-proxamol on Nonfatal Self-Poisoning in the UK. Crisis, 32(2), 81-7. eScholarID:123691 | PMID:21602162 | DOI:10.1027/0227-5910/a000063
  • Hunt, I., Windfuhr, K., Swinson, N., Shaw, J., Appleby, L. & Kapur, N (2011). Electroconvulsive therapy and suicide among the mentally ill in England: A national clinical survey. Psychiatry Res, eScholarID:117339 | PMID:21208662 | DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2010.12.014
  • Kendall, T., Taylor, C., Bhatti, H., Chan, M., Kapur, N. & . (2011). Longer term management of self harm: summary of NICE guidance. BMJ, 343, d7073. eScholarID:146867 | PMID:22113565 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.d7073
  • Murphy, E., Kapur, N., Webb, R. & Cooper, J (2011). Risk assessment following self-harm: comparison of mental health nurses and psychiatrists. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67(1), 127-39. eScholarID:107712 | PMID:20969616 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05484.x
  • Murphy, E., Kapur, N., Webb, R., Purandare, N., Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Waters, K. & Cooper, J (2011). Risk factors for repetition and suicide following self-harm in older adults: multicentre cohort study. Br J Psychiatry, eScholarID:146864 | PMID:22157801 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.094177
  • Oude Voshaar, R., Cooper, J., Murphy, E., Steeg, S., Kapur, N. & Purandare, N (2011). First episode of self-harm in older age: a report from the 10-year prospective Manchester Self-Harm project. J Clin Psychiatry, 72(6), 737-43. eScholarID:126459 | PMID:21733475 | DOI:10.4088/JCP.10m06501
  • Pinder, R., Iversen, A., Kapur, N., Wessely, S. & Fear, N (2011). Self-harm and attempted suicide among UK Armed Forces personnel: Results of a cross-sectional survey. Int J Soc Psychiatry, eScholarID:146849 | PMID:21693487 | DOI:10.1177/0020764011408534
  • Swinson, N., Flynn, S., While, D., Roscoe, A., Kapur, N., Appleby, L. & Shaw, J (2011). Trends in rates of mental illness in homicide perpetrators. Br J Psychiatry, 198, 485-9. eScholarID:123840 | PMID:21628711 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085357
  • Voshaar, R., Kapur, N., Bickley, H., Williams, A. & Purandare, N (2011). Suicide in later life: A comparison between cases with early-onset and late-onset depression. J Affect Disord, eScholarID:121021 | PMID:21420737 | DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2011.02.008
  • Williams, A., While, D., Windfuhr, K., Bickley, H., Hunt, I., Shaw, J., Appleby, L. & Kapur, N (2011). Birthday blues: examining the association between birthday and suicide in a national sample. Crisis, 32(3), 134-42. eScholarID:128988 | PMID:21616762 | DOI:10.1027/0227-5910/a000067
  • Windfuhr, K. & Kapur, N (2011). Suicide and mental illness: a clinical review of 15 years findings from the UK National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide. Br Med Bull, eScholarID:133293 | PMID:21948337 | DOI:10.1093/bmb/ldr042
  • Dickson, S., Steeg, S., Gordon, M., Donaldson, I., Matthews, V., Kapur, N., & Cooper, J (2011). Self-Harm in Manchester 2008-2009. The Centre for Suicide Prevention: The University of Manchester. eScholarID:122140

2010

  • Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Waters, K., Cooper, J. & Kapur, N (2010). Epidemiology and trends in non-fatal self-harm in three centres in England: 2000-2007. Br J Psychiatry, 197, 493-8. eScholarID:99800 | PMID:21119156 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.077651
  • Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Waters, K., Cooper, J. & Kapur, N (2010). Psychosocial assessment and repetition of self-harm: The significance of single and multiple repeat episode analyses. J Affect Disord, eScholarID:91932 | PMID:20684848 | DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2010.05.001
  • Biddle, L., Donovan, J., Owen-Smith, A., Potokar, J., Longson, D., Hawton, K., Kapur, N. & Gunnell, D (2010). Factors influencing the decision to use hanging as a method of suicide: qualitative study. Br J Psychiatry, 197(4), 320-5. eScholarID:96252 | PMID:20884956 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.076349
  • Cooper, J., Murphy, E., Webb, R., Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Waters, K. & Kapur, N (2010). Ethnic differences in self-harm, rates, characteristics and service provision: three-city cohort study. Br J Psychiatry, 197(3), 212-8. eScholarID:91933 | PMID:20807966 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.072637
  • Cooper, J., Murphy, E., Webb, R., Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Waters, K. & Kapur, N (2010). Ethnic differences in self-harm, rates, characteristics and service provision: three-city cohort study. Br J Psychiatry, 197(3), 212-8. eScholarID:99836 | PMID:20807966 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.072637
  • Da Cruz, D., Pearson, A., Saini, P., Miles, C., While, D., Swinson, N., Williams, A., Shaw, J., Appleby, L. & Kapur, N (2010). Emergency department contact prior to suicide in mental health patients. Emerg Med J, eScholarID:91815 | PMID:20660941 | DOI:10.1136/emj.2009.081869
  • Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Simkin, S., Cooper, J., Waters, K., Gunnell, D. & Kapur, N (2010). Toxicity of antidepressants: rates of suicide relative to prescribing and non-fatal overdose. Br J Psychiatry, 196(5), 354-358. eScholarID:84588 | PMID:20435959 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.070219
  • Hunt I.M, Ashim. B., Swinson, N,. Flynn, S,. Hayes, A.J,. Roscoe, A,. Rodway, C,. Amos, T,. Kapur, N,. Appleby L. & Shaw, J. (2010). Homicide convictions in different age-groups: a national clinical survey. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, eScholarID:77830 | DOI:10.1080/14789940903513195
  • Hunt, I., Swinson, N., Palmer, B., Turnbull, P., Cooper, J., While, D., Windfuhr, K., Shaw, J., Appleby, L. & Kapur, N (2010). Method of suicide in the mentally ill: a national clinical survey. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 40(1), 22-34. eScholarID:77229 | PMID:20170259 | DOI:10.1521/suli.2010.40.1.22
  • Hunt, I., Windfuhr, K., Swinson, N., Shaw, J., Appleby, L., Kapur, N. & And Homicide By People With Mental Illness, T (2010). Suicide amongst psychiatric in-patients who abscond from the ward: a national clinical survey. BMC Psychiatry, 10(1), 14. eScholarID:77232 | PMID:20128891 | DOI:10.1186/1471-244X-10-14
  • Kapur, N., Clements, C., Bateman, N., Foëx, B., Mackway-Jones, K., Hawton, K. & Gunnell, D (2010). Self-poisoning suicide deaths in England: could improved medical management contribute to suicide prevention? QJM, 103(10), 765-75. eScholarID:91934 | PMID:20685840 | DOI:10.1093/qjmed/hcq128
  • Kapur, N., Clements, C., Bateman, N., Foëx, B., Mackway-Jones, K., Huxtable, R., Gunnell, D. & Hawton, K (2010). Advance directives and suicidal behaviour. BMJ, 341, c4557. eScholarID:91935 | PMID:20823015 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.c4557
  • Kapur, N., Cooper, J., Bennewith, O., Gunnell, D. & Hawton, K (2010). Postcards, green cards and telephone calls: therapeutic contact with individuals following self-harm. Br J Psychiatry, 197, 5-7. eScholarID:85620 | PMID:20592425 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.072496
  • Murphy, E., Kapur, N., Webb, R. & Cooper, J (2010). Risk assessment following self-harm: comparison of mental health nurses and psychiatrists. J Adv Nurs, eScholarID:96259 | PMID:20969616 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05484.x
  • Murphy, E., Kapur, N., Webb, R. & Cooper, J (2010). Risk assessment following self-harm: comparison of mental health nurses and psychiatrists. J Adv Nurs, eScholarID:99883 | PMID:20969616 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05484.x
  • Murphy, E., Steeg, S., Cooper, J., Chang, R., Turpin, C., Guthrie, E. & Kapur, N (2010). Assessment rates and compliance with assertive follow-up after self-harm: cohort study. Arch Suicide Res, 14(2), 120-34. eScholarID:81090 | PMID:20455148 | DOI:10.1080/13811111003704662
  • Saini, P., Windfuhr, K., Pearson, A., Da Cruz, D., Miles, C., Cordingley, L., While, D., Swinson, N., Williams, A., Shaw, J., Appleby, L. & Kapur, N (2010). Suicide prevention in primary care: General practitioners' views on service availability. BMC Res Notes, 3, 246. eScholarID:93573 | PMID:20920302 | DOI:10.1186/1756-0500-3-246
  • Swinson N, Flynn S, Kapur N, Appleby L and Shaw J. (2010). The use of the care programme approach in perpetrators of homicide. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 21(5), 649-659. eScholarID:93670 | DOI:10.1080/14789941003739649
  • Windfuhr, K., Bickley, H., While, D., Williams, A., Hunt, I., Appleby, L. & Kapur, N (2010). Nonresident suicides in England: a national study. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 40(2), 151-8. eScholarID:82669 | PMID:20465350 | DOI:10.1521/suli.2010.40.2.151
  • Windfuhr, K., Turnbull, P., While, D., Swinson, N., Mehta, H., Hadfield, K., Hiroeh, U., Watkinson, H., Dixon, C., Flynn, S., Thomas, S., Lewis, G., Ferrier, I., Amos, T., Skapinakis, P., Shaw, J., Kapur, N. & Appleby, L (2010). The incidence and associated risk factors for sudden unexplained death in psychiatric in-patients in England and Wales. J Psychopharmacol, eScholarID:93572 | PMID:20952453 | DOI:10.1177/0269881110379288

2009

  • Almasi, K., Belso, N., Kapur, N., Webb, R., Cooper, J., Hadley, S., Kerfoot, M., Dunn, G., Sotonyi, P., Rihmer, Z. & Appleby, L (2009). Risk factors for suicide in Hungary: a case-control study. BMC Psychiatry, 9, 45. eScholarID:76241 | PMID:19638202 | DOI:10.1186/1471-244X-9-45
  • Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Murphy, E., Cooper, J., Kapur, N., Stalker, C. & Waters, K (2009). Trends in prescribing and self-poisoning in relation to UK regulatory authority warnings against use of SSRI antidepressants in under-18-year-olds. Br J Clin Pharmacol, 68(4), 618-29. eScholarID:75398 | PMID:19843065 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2125.2009.03481.x
  • Bergen, H., Murphy, E., Cooper, J., Kapur, N., Stalker, C., Waters, K. & Hawton, K (2009). A comparative study of non-fatal self-poisoning with antidepressants relative to prescribing in three centres in England. J Affect Disord, eScholarID:75400 | PMID:19864029 | DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2009.10.004
  • Flynn SM, Swinson N, While D, Hunt IM, Roscoe A, Rodway C, Windfuhr K, Kapur N, Appleby L and Shaw J. (2009). Homicide followed by suicide: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 20(2), 306-321. eScholarID:66537 | DOI:10.1080/14789940802364369
  • Goodwin, G. & group, a (2009). Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: revised second edition--recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology. J Psychopharmacol, 23(4), 346-88. eScholarID:84627 | PMID:19329543 | DOI:10.1177/0269881109102919
  • Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Simkin, S., Brock, A., Griffiths, C., Romeri, E., Smith, K., Kapur, N. & Gunnell, D (2009). Effect of withdrawal of co-proxamol on prescribing and deaths from drug poisoning in England and Wales: time series analysis. BMJ, 338, b2270. eScholarID:84620 | PMID:19541707 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.b2270
  • Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Simkin, S., Brock, A., Griffiths, C., Romeri, E., Smith, K., Kapur, N. & Gunnell, D. (2009). Effect of withdrawal of co-proxamol on prescribing and deaths from drug poisoning in England and Wales: time series analysis. BMJ, 338, eScholarID:1d20683 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.b2270
  • Hunt I, While D, Windfuhr K, Swinson N, Shaw J, Appleby L, Kapur NN. (2009). Suicide pacts in the mentally ill: A national clinical survey. Psychiatry Research, 167( 1-2), eScholarID:1d19109 | DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2008.05.004
  • Hunt IM, Kapur NN, Webb RT, Robinson J, Burns JM, Shaw J, Appleby L. (2009). Suicide in recently discharged psychiatric patients: a case-control study. Psychological Medicine, 39(3), eScholarID:1d17607
  • Kapur NN, Gask LL. (2009). Introduction to suicide and self-harm. Psychiatry, 8 (7), 257-260. eScholarID:1d33242
  • Kapur NN, While D, Blatchley N, Bray I, Harrison K. (2009). Suicide after leaving the UK armed forces--a cohort study. PLoS Med, 6( 3), eScholarID:1d20190 | DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000026
  • Kapur NN. (2009). Health services and suicide prevention. Journal of Mental Health, 18 (1), eScholarID:1d18792 | DOI:10.1080/09638230802370704
  • Kapur NN. (2009). Suicide in the mentally ill. Psychiatry, 8 (7), eScholarID:1d33143 | DOI:10.1097/00007611-199908000-00030
  • Pearson A, Saini P, Da Cruz D, Miles C, While D, Swinson N, Williams A, Shaw J Appleby A and Kapur N. (2009). Primary care contact prior to suicide in individuals with mental illness. British Journal of General Practice, 59(568), 825-832. eScholarID:75779 | DOI:10.3399/bjgp09X472881
  • Purandare N, Voshaar R, Rodway C, Bickley H, Burns AS, Kapur NN. (2009). Suicide in dementia: 9-year national clinical survey in England and Wales. British Journal of Psychiatry, 194( 2), eScholarID:1d18709 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.108.050500
  • Rodway C, Flynn SM, Swinson NA, Roscoe A, Hunt IM, Windfuhr KL, Kapur NN, Appleby L, Shaw J. (2009). Methods of homicide in England and Wales: a comparison by diagnostic group. Journal of forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 20(2), 268-305. eScholarID:1d19110 | DOI:10.1080/14789940802360870
  • Roscoe A, Rodway C, Mehta HH, While DT, Tim Amos, Kapur NN, Appleby L, Shaw J. (2009). Psychiatric recommendations to the court as regards homicide perpetrators. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 20(3), 336-377. eScholarID:1d19112 | DOI:10.1080/14789940802396528
  • Taylor, T., Hawton, K., Fortune, S., & Kapur, N. (2009). Attitudes towards clinical services among people who self-harm: systematic review. Br J Psychiatry, 194( 2), eScholarID:1d20684 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.107.046425
  • Dickson, S., Steeg, S., Donaldson, I., Matthews, V., Healey, M., Cooper, J., Kapur, N., & Murphy, E. (2009). 'Self-Harm in Manchester' (01:09:05-31:08:07). Manchester: The University of Manchester. eScholarID:75406

2008

  • Appleby L, Shaw J, Kapur NN, et al. (2008). The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness: Lessons for mental health care in Scotland. Report for the Scottish Government. For copies of the report please go to "Inquiry Five Yearly Reports", eScholarID:1d33207
  • Biddle L, Donovan J, Hawton K, Kapur NN, Gunnell D. (2008). Suicide and the internet. BMJ, 336( 7648), 800-2. eScholarID:1d17608 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.330.7491.602-b
  • Cooper J, Husain N, Webb R, Waheed W, Kapur NN, Guthrie E, Appleby L. (2008). Self-harm in the UK : Differences between South Asians and Whites in rates, characteristics, provision of service and repetition. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 43( 12), eScholarID:1d18332 | DOI:10.1007/s00127-008-0483-1
  • Gunnell D, Hawton K, Ho D, Evans J, O'Connor S, Potokar J, Donovan J, Kapur NN. (2008). Hospital admissions for self harm after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care: cohort study. BMJ, 337, eScholarID:1d20685 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.a2278
  • Hiroeh U, Kapur NN, Webb RT, Dunn G, Mortensen P, Appleby L. (2008). Deaths from natural causes in people with mental illness: a cohort study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64( 3), 275-83. eScholarID:1d17239
  • Kapur, N., Murphy, E., Cooper, J., Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Simkin, S., Casey, D., Horrocks, J., Lilley, R., Noble, R. & Owens, D. (2008). Psychosocial assessment following self-harm: Results from the Multi-Centre Monitoring of Self-Harm Project. J Affect Disord, 103(3), 285-293. eScholarID:1d16641 | DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2007.07.010
  • Lilley, R., Owens, D., Horrocks, J., House, A., Noble, R., Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Casey, D., Simkin, S., Murphy, E., Cooper, J. & Kapur, N (2008). Hospital care and repetition following self-harm: multicentre comparison of self-poisoning and self-injury. Br J Psychiatry, 192(6), 440-5. eScholarID:76244 | PMID:18515895 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.107.043380
  • Lilley, R., Owens, D., Horrocks, J., House, A., Noble, R., Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Casey, D., Simkin, S., Murphy, E., Cooper, J. & Kapur, N (2008). Hospital care and repetition following self-harm: multicentre comparison of self-poisoning and self-injury. Br J Psychiatry, 192(6), 440-5. eScholarID:85647 | PMID:18515895 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.107.043380
  • Windfuhr KL, While DT, Hunt IM, Turnbull P, Lowe R, Burns JM, Shaw J, Appleby L, Kapur NN. (2008). Suicide in juveniles and adolescents in the United Kingdom. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 49, 1165-1175. eScholarID:1d18133 | DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.01938.x

2007

  • Bolton, C., Gooding, P., Kapur, N., Barrowclough, C. & Tarrier, N (2007). Developing psychological perspectives of suicidal behaviour and risk in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia: we know they kill themselves but do we understand why? Clin Psychol Rev, 27(4), 511-36. eScholarID:76203 | PMID:17229508 | DOI:10.1016/j.cpr.2006.12.001
  • Cooper, J., Kapur, N. & Mackway-Jones, K. (2007). A comparison between clinicians' assessment and the Manchester Self-Harm Rule: a cohort study. Emerg Med J, 24( 10), eScholarID:1d16643 | DOI:10.1136/1745/emj.2007.0489w3
  • Cooper, J., Murphy, E., Bergen, H., Casey, D., Hawton, K., Owens, D., Lilley, R., Noble, R. & Kapur, N. (2007). The effect of using NHS number as the unique identifier for patients who self-harm: a multi-centre descriptive study. Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health, 3, 16. eScholarID:1d16642 | DOI:10.1186/1745-0179-3-16
  • Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Casey, D., Simkin, S., Palmer, B., Cooper, J., Kapur, N., Horrocks, J., House, A., Lilley, R., Noble, R. & Owens, D. (2007). Self-harm in England: a tale of three cities. Multicentre study of self-harm. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 42( 7), eScholarID:1d16640 | DOI:10.1007/s00127-007-0199-7
  • Hunt I, Kapur NN, Webb RT, Robinson J, Burns J, Turnbull P, Shaw J, Appleby L. (2007). Suicide in current psychiatric in-patients: a case-control study The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide. Psychological Medicine, 37( 6), eScholarID:1d16639
  • Hunt IM, Kapur N. (2007). In-patient suicide: epidemiology, predictors, and prevention. Irish Psychiatrist, 8, 185-187. eScholarID:34923
  • Kapur, N (2007). Self-harm in the general hospital. Clin Med, 6(6), 529-32. eScholarID:76204 | PMID:17228549
  • Swinson N, Ashim B, Windfuhr K, Kapur N, Aplleby L, Shaw J. (2007). National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness: new directions. Psychiatric Bulletin, 31, 161-163. eScholarID:76205
  • Swinson N, Hunt I, Kapur NN. (2007). Are psychiatric wards becoming safer? British Journal of Hospital Medicine (Lond), 68( 10), eScholarID:1d16645
  • Turner O, Windfuhr K, Kapur NN. (2007). Suicide in deaf populations: a literature review. Annals of General Psychiatry, 6 ( 1), eScholarID:1d16644

2006

  • Appleby L, Shaw J, Kapur NN, et al. (2006). Avoidable Deaths: Five year report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. Report for the National Patient Safety Agency, Department of Health. For copies of the report please go to "Inquiry Five Yearly Reports" in the left hand column of the Inquiry's website, eScholarID:1d33018
  • Bickley, H, Kapur, NN, Hunt, IM, Robinson, J, Meehan, J, Parsons, R, McCann, K, Flynn, S, Burns, J, Amos, T, Shaw, J, Appleby, L. (2006). Suicide in the homeless within 12 months of contact with mental health services - a national clinical survey in the UK. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41(9), 686-691. eScholarID:1d14463
  • Cooper, J., Husain, N., Webb, R., Waheed, W., Kapur, N., Guthrie, E. & Appleby, L (2006). Self-harm in the UK: differences between South Asians and Whites in rates, characteristics, provision of service and repetition. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 41(10), 782-8. eScholarID:76245 | PMID:16838089 | DOI:10.1007/s00127-006-0099-2
  • Cooper, J., Kapur. N., Guthrie, E., Mackway-Jones, K. & Appleby, L. (2006). A Clinical Tool for Assessing Risk After Self-Harm. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 48(4), 7. eScholarID:76152
  • Hunt, I, Kapur, NN, Robinson, J, Shaw, J, Flynn, S, Bailey, H, Meehan, J, Bickley, H, Burns, J, Appleby, L, Parsons, R. (2006). Suicide within 12 months of mental health service contact in different age and diagnostic groups: National clinical survey. British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 135-142. eScholarID:1d13130
  • Hunt, IM, Kapur, NN, Windfuhr, K, Robinson, J, Bickley, H, Flynn, S, Parsons, R, Burns, J, Shaw, J, Appleby, L. (2006). Suicide in schizophrenia: findings from a national clinical survey. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 12(3), 139-147. eScholarID:1d14461
  • Jackson J, Fiddler M, Kapur NN, Wells A, Tomenson BM, Creed FH. (2006). Number of bodily symptoms predicts outcome more accurately than health anxiety in patients attending neurology, cardiology, and gastroenterology clinics. J Psychosom Res, 60( 4), 357-63. eScholarID:1d13126
  • Johnston, A., Cooper, J. & Kapur, N. (2006). Exploring the relationship between area characteristics and self-harm: old approaches and new. Crisis, 27( 2), eScholarID:1d13464 | DOI:10.1027/0227-5910.27.2.88
  • Johnston, A., Cooper, J., Webb, R. & Kapur N. (2006). Individual- and area-level predictors of self-harm repetition. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189, eScholarID:1d14212 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.105.018085
  • Kapur NN, Turnbull P, Hawton K, Simkin S, Mackway-Jones K, Gunnell D. (2006). The hospital management of fatal self-poisoning in industrialized countries: an opportunity for suicide prevention? Suicide Life Threat Behav, 36( 3), eScholarID:1d14460
  • Kapur, N., Cooper, J., King-Hele, S., Webb, R., Lawlor, M., Rodway, C., & Appleby, L. (2006). The repetition of suicidal behavior: a multicenter cohort study. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 67(10), eScholarID:1d14209
  • Meehan, J, Flynn, S, Hunt, IM, Robinson, J, Bickley, H, Parsons, R, Amos, T, Kapur, NN, Appleby, L, Shaw, J. (2006). Perpetrators of homicide with schizophrenia: A national clinical survey in England and Wales. Psychiatric Services, 57(11), 1648-1651. eScholarID:1d14462
  • Meehan, J, Kapur, NN, Hunt, IM, Turnbull, P, Robinson, J, Bickley, H, Parsons, R, Flynn, S, Burns, J, Amos, T, Shaw, J, Appleby, L. (2006). Suicide in mental health in-patients and within 3 months of discharge. National clinical survey. British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 129-134. eScholarID:1d13131 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.188.2.129
  • Shaw, J, Hunt, IM, Flynn, S, Amos, T, Meehan, J, Robinson, J, Bickley, H, Parsons, R, McCann, K, Burns, J, Kapur, NN, Appleby, L. (2006). The role of alcohol and drugs in homicides in England and Wales. Addiction, 101(8), 1117-1124. eScholarID:1d14464
  • Shaw, J, Hunt, IM, Flynn, S, Meehan, J, Robinson, J, Bickley, H, Parsons, R, McCann, K, Burns, J, Amos, T, Kapur, NN, Appleby, L. (2006). Rates of mental disorder in people convicted of homicide. National clinical survey. British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 143-147. eScholarID:1d13129
  • Murphy, E., Dickson, S., Donaldson, I., Healey, M., Kapur, N., Appleby, L. & Cooper, J. (2006). 'Self-harm in Manchester' (01:09:03-31:08:05). Manchester: The University of Manchester. eScholarID:85705

2005

  • Appleby L, Swinson NA, Kapur NN. (2005). Making Mental Health Services Safer. In Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour, K Hawton (Ed), eScholarID:1d32876
  • Bennewith O, Gunnell D, Kapur NN, Turnbull P, Simkin S, Sutton L, Hawton K. (2005). Suicide by hanging: multicentre study based on coroners' records in England. Br J Psychiatry, 186, eScholarID:1d10645
  • Bennewith O, Hawton K, Simkin S, Sutton L, Kapur NN, Turnbull P, Gunnell D. (2005). The usefulness of coroners' data on suicides for providing information relevant to prevention. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 35( 6), eScholarID:1d13127
  • Cooper, J., Kapur, N., Webb, R., Lawlor, M., Guthrie, E., Mackway-Jones, K. & Appleby, L (2005). Suicide after deliberate self-harm: a 4-year cohort study. Am J Psychiatry, 162(2), 297-303. eScholarID:76153 | PMID:15677594 | DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.162.2.297
  • Gunnell D, Bennewith O, Hawton K, Simkin S, Kapur NN. (2005). The epidemiology and prevention of suicide by hanging: a systematic review. Int J Epidemiol, 34( 2), 433-42. eScholarID:1d10649
  • Hawton K, Simkin S, Gunnell D, Sutton L, Bennewith O, Turnbull P, Kapur NN. (2005). A multicentre study of coproxamol poisoning suicides based on coroners' records in England. Br J Clin Pharmacol, 59( 2), eScholarID:1d10648
  • Kapur NN, Hunt IM, Lunt M, McBeth J, Creed FH, Macfarlane G. (2005). Primary care consultation predictors in men and women: a cohort study. Br J Gen Pract, 55( 511), eScholarID:1d10647
  • Kapur NN, Turnbull P, Hawton K, Simkin S, Kevin Mackway-Jones, Gunnell D. (2005). The hospital management of fatal self-poisoning in industrialised countries: an opportunity for suicide prevention? Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour, eScholarID:1d12387
  • Kapur NN, Turnbull P, Hawton K, Simkin S, Sutton L, Mackway-Jones K, Bennewith O, Gunnell D. (2005). Self-poisoning suicides in England: a multicentre study. QJM, 98( 8), eScholarID:1d12377
  • Kapur NN. (2005). Management of self-harm in adults: which way now? British Journal of Psychiatry, 187, 497-499. eScholarID:1d12379
  • Kapur, N. & Cooper, J. (2005). Self harm was misrepresented (again). BMJ, 330( 7498), eScholarID:1d10643
  • Kapur, N., Cooper, J., Rodway, C., Kelly, J., Guthrie, E., & Mackway-Jones, K. (2005). Predicting the risk of repetition after self harm: cohort study. British Medical Journal, 330( 7488), 390-395. eScholarID:1d10425 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.38337.584225.82
  • McKenzie N, Lanau S, Kapur N, Meehan J, Robinson J, Bickley H, Parsons R, Appleby L. (2005). Clustering of suicides among people with mental illness. British Journal of Psychiatry, 187, 476-480. eScholarID:76149
  • Meehan J, Kapur NN, Hunt IM. (2005). Suicide in mental health in-patients and within three months of hospital discharge: A National Clinical Survey. British Journal of Psychiatry, eScholarID:1d12383
  • Qurashi, I., Kapur, N. & Appleby, L (2005). A prospective study of noncompliance with medication, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behavior in recently discharged psychiatric inpatients. Arch Suicide Res, 10, 61-7. eScholarID:76155 | PMID:16287696 | DOI:10.1080/13811110500318455
  • Simkin S, Hawton K, Sutton L, Gunnell D, Bennewith O, Kapur NN. (2005). Co-proxamol and suicide: preventing the continuing toll of overdose deaths. QJM, 98( 3), 159-70. eScholarID:1d10646
  • Sutton L, Hawton K, Simkin S, Turnbull P, Kapur NN, Bennewith O, Gunnell D. (2005). Gunshot suicides in England A multicentre study based on coroners' records. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 40( 4), eScholarID:1d10644

2004

  • (2004). Assessing Suicide Risk. In Duffy, D, Ryan, T (Ed.), New Approaches to Preventing Suicide: A Manual for Practitioners. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. eScholarID:85695
  • Fiddler M, Jackson J, Kapur NN, Wells A, Creed FH. (2004). Childhood adversity and frequent medical consultations. Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 26( 5), 367-77. eScholarID:1d9341
  • Haw C, Sutton L, Simkin S, Gunnell D, Kapur NN, Nowers M, Hawton K. (2004). Suicide by gunshot in the United Kingdom: a review of the literature. Med Sci Law, 44( 4), 295-310. eScholarID:1d10650
  • Kapur NN, Hunt IM, Lunt M, McBeth J, Creed FH, Macfarlane G. (2004). Psychosocial and illness related predictors of consultation rates in primary care--a cohort study. Psychol Med, 34( 4), eScholarID:1d8102
  • Kapur NN, Hunt IM, Macfarlane G, McBeth J, Creed FH. (2004). Childhood experience and health care use in adulthood: nested case--control study. Br J Psychiatry, 185, eScholarID:1d9342 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.185.2.134
  • Kapur NN. (2004). Suicide: causes and prevention. Hosp Med, 65( 11), 644-5. eScholarID:1d10651
  • Kapur, N., Cooper, J., Hiroeh, U., May, C., Appleby, L. & House, A. (2004). Emergency department management and outcome for self-poisoning: a cohort study. Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 26( 1), eScholarID:1d12531 | DOI:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2003.06.002
  • Shaw J, Amos T, Hunt IM, Flynn S, Turnbull P, Kapur NN, Appleby L. (2004). Mental illness in people who kill strangers: longitudinal study and national clinical survey. BMJ, 328( 7442), eScholarID:1d9332 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.328.7442.734
  • Cooper, J., Johnston, A., Healey, M., Donaldson, I., Bickley, H., Kapur, N. & Appleby, L. (2004). Manchester Self-Harm Project (MaSH) Sixth Year Report (01:09:02-31:08:03). Manchester: The University of Manchester. eScholarID:85706

2003

  • Cooper, J., Lawlor, M., Hiroeh, U., Kapur, N. & Appleby, L. (2003). Factors that influence emergency department doctors' assessment of suicide risk in deliberate self-harm patients. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 10 (4), eScholarID:1d9337 | DOI:10.1097/01.mej.0000103760.80742.63
  • Guthrie, EA, Kapur, NN, Mackway-Jones, K, Chew-Graham, CA, Moorey, J, Mendel, E, Francis, F, Sanderson, S, Turpin, C, Boddy, G. (2003). Predictors of outcome following brief psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy for deliberate self-poisoning. Aust N Z J Psychiatry, 37( 5), 532-6. eScholarID:1d9344
  • Hunt IM, Robinson J, Bickley H, Meehan J, Parsons R, McCann K, Burns J, Shaw, J, Kapur, NN, Appleby, L. (2003). Suicides in ethnic minorities within 12 months of contact with mental health services: a national clinical survey. Br J Psychiatry, 183, eScholarID:1d6173
  • Kapur N, Gask LL. (2003). An introduction to suicide and non-fatal self-harm. Psychiatry, 2(7), eScholarID:1d25286
  • Kapur NN, Appleby L. (2003). Suicide in the mentally ill. Psychiatry, 2(7), 21-25. eScholarID:1d6146
  • Kapur NN, Gask LL. (2003). Introduction to Suicide and Non-fatal Deliberate Self-harm. Psychiatry, 2, eScholarID:1d18126
  • Kapur NN. (2003). Deliberate self-harm in the general hospital. Psychiatry, 2(1), 12-15. eScholarID:1d25284
  • Kapur, N., House, A., May, C. & Creed, F. (2003). Service provision and outcome for deliberate self-poisoning in adults. Results from a six-centre descriptive study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemology, 38, eScholarID:1d25233 | DOI:10.1007/s00127-003-0647-y
  • Appleby L, Kapur N, Shaw J, Robinson J. (2003). Suicide and self-harm. Br J Psychiatry, 183, eScholarID:17d418
  • Kelly, J., Cooper, J., Johnston, A., Healey, M., Donaldson, I., Kapur, N. & Appleby, L. (2003). Manchester Self-Harm Project (MaSH) Fifth Year Report (01:09:01 – 31:08:02). Manchester: The University of Manchester. eScholarID:85707

2002

  • Kapur, N., House, A., Dodgson, K., May, C. & Creed, F. (2002). Effect of general hospital management on repeat episodes of deliberate self poisoning: cohort study. BMJ, 325( 7369), eScholarID:1d10652 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.325.7369.866
  • Kapur, N., House, A., Dodgson, K., May, C., Marshall, S., Tomenson, B. & Creed, F. (2002). Management and costs of deliberate self-poisoning in the general hospital: a multi-centre study. Journal Of Mental Health, 11(2), eScholarID:1d23832 | DOI:10.1080/1-09638230020023606
  • Rodger M, Lavender T, Kapur NN. (2002). Problem based learning, work demands and psychological distress in pre-registration house officers: a preliminary study. Medical Teacher, 24(3), 334-336. eScholarID:1d25283
  • Ronalds C, Kapur NN, Stone K, Webb S, Tomenson BM, Creed FH. (2002). Determinants of consultation rate in patients with anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care. Family Practice, 1, 23-28. eScholarID:1d23831

2001

  • Fabbri S, Kapur NN, Wells A, Creed FH. (2001). Emotional, cognitive and behavioural characteristics of medical outpatients: a preliminary analysis. Journal Of Psychosomatic Research, 1, 74-77. eScholarID:1d25183
  • Guthrie, E, Kapur, NN, Mackway-Jones, K, Chew-Graham, C, Moorey, J, Mendel, E, Marino-Francis, F, Sanderson, S, Turpin, C, Boddy, G, Tomenson, BM. (2001). Randomised controlled trial of brief psychological intervention after deliberate self poisoning. BMJ, 323( 7305), 135-8. eScholarID:1d10653
  • Guthrie, EA, Kapur, NN, Kevin Mackway-Jones, Chew-Graham, CA, Moorey,J., Mendel,E., Marino-Francis,F., Sanderson,S., Turpin,C., Boddy,G., Tomenson, BM. (2001). Randomised controlled trial of brief psychological intervention after deliberate self poisoning. BMJ, 323, 7305, 135-138. eScholarID:1d5876 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.323.7305.135
  • Guthrie, EA, Kapur, NN, Mackway-Jones K, Chew-Graham, CA, Moorey J, Mendel E, Marino-Francis F, Sanderson S, Turpin C, Boddy G, Tomenson, BM. (2001). Randomised controlled trial of brief psychological intervention after deliberate self-poisoning. British Medical Journal, 323 (7305), 135-138. eScholarID:1d23826
  • Hadida A, Kapur NN, Mackway-Jones K, Guthrie EA, Creed FH. (2001). Comparing two different methods of identifying alcohol related problems in the emergency department: a real chance to intervene? Emergency Medical Journal, 18(2), 112-115. eScholarID:1d25222
  • Kapur NN, House A, Dodgson K, May C, Creed FH. (2001). Hospital management and costs of antidepressant overdose: multicentre comparison on tricyclic antidepressants and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Journal of Medical Economics, 193-197, 193-197. eScholarID:1d25226
  • Kapur NN, Macfarlane G, Creed FH. (2001). Frequent attenders in general practice. British Journal of General Practice, 51, 470, 756-757. eScholarID:1d5523
  • Targosz SA, Kapur NN, Creed FH. (2001). Medically unexplained symptoms, illness perception and childhood experience in neurology outpatients. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 18(1), 16-20. eScholarID:1d25187

2000

  • Kapur NN. (2000). Evaluating Risk. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 6, 399-406. eScholarID:1d24049

1999

  • Appleby L, Shaw J, Kapur NN, et al. (1999). Safer Services: Report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. Report for the Department of Health. For copies of the report please go to "Inquiry Five Yearly Reports" in the left hand column of the Inquiry's website, eScholarID:1d32906
  • Kapur NN, House A, Creed F, Feldman E, Friedman T, Guthrie E. (1999). Costs of antidepressant overdose: a preliminary study. Br J Gen Pract, 49( 446), 733-4. eScholarID:1d10658
  • Kapur NN, House A, Creed F, Feldman E, Friedman T, Guthrie E. (1999). General hospital services for deliberate self-poisoning: an expensive road to nowhere? Postgrad Med J, 75( 888), 599-602. eScholarID:1d10660
  • Kapur NN, House A, Creed FH, Feldman E, Friedman T, Guthrie EA. (1999). An expensive road to nowhere? Economic and clinical aspects of service provision for self-harm. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 75, 599-602. eScholarID:1d24050
  • Kapur NN, House A, Creed FH, Feldman E, Friedman T, Guthrie EA. (1999). The costs of antidepressant overdose. British Journal Of General Practice, 49, 733-734. eScholarID:1d23830

1998

  • Kapur NN, Borrill C, Stride C. (1998). Psychological morbidity and job satisfaction in hospital consultants and junior house officers: multicentre, cross sectional survey. BMJ, 317( 7157), 511-2. eScholarID:1d10662
  • Kapur NN, House A. (1998). Improving 'new deal' shifts for junior house officers. Hosp Med, 59( 12), 960-2, 964, 966. eScholarID:1d10659
  • Kapur NN, House A. (1998). Working patterns and the quality of training of medical house officers: evaluating the effect of the 'new deal'. Med Educ, 32( 4), 432-8. eScholarID:1d10661
  • Kapur, N., House, A., Creed, F., Feldman, E., Friedman, T. & Guthrie, E. (1998). Management of deliberate self poisoning in adults in four teaching hospitals: descriptive study. BMJ, 316( 7134), eScholarID:1d10663

1997

  • Kapur NN, House A. (1997). Job satisfaction and psychological morbidity in medical house officers. J R Coll Physicians Lond, 31( 2), 162-7. eScholarID:1d10665
  • Kapur NN. (1997). Senior house officer training. Improved training may have more to do with money than with new shifts. BMJ, 314( 7097), eScholarID:1d10664

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