The Edge of Life
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Suicide is the number one killer of men under-50 in England and Wales. A 'zero suicide' approach to prevention first devised in Detroit is now changing attitudes to care in the UK. Merseyside is leading the way. Radio 4 gains exclusive access to a healthcare authority being transformed from the inside-out in a bid to treat suicide as a preventable condition and to bring lives lost down to 0% by 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:40.0 | Change your perspective. |
| 0:43.0 | What happens? |
| 0:44.0 | We decided as an organization that we were going to do something really different |
| 0:48.0 | to say that anybody who comes into our services |
| 0:51.0 | and who's in contact with Mer mercy care shouldn't die by suicide. |
| 0:56.0 | That's Joe Rafferty. |
| 0:58.0 | The NHS Foundation Trust he leads has introduced a zero suicide approach. They see suicide as |
| 1:04.4 | avoidable and it's having a real impact. I want you to, and you've got about 10 |
| 1:10.6 | minutes, I want you to give me a definition, think about and give me a |
| 1:15.7 | definition of what a risk factor is and then what a protective factor is. Maybe in threes, three. protective factors. |
| 1:26.0 | Maybe in threes, three, three, three. I'm Riana Dylan and today's seriously interesting story |
| 1:30.0 | takes us to Merseys in the northwest of England. |
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