The Real Time Suspected Suicide Surveillance (RTSSS) for Wales was established in Public Health Wales on the 1st April 2022.

One of the ambitions in the ‘Talk to me 2’ suicide and self-harm prevention strategy for Wales (2015-2022) was to establish surveillance systems to improve the quality of data and intelligence to inform prevention. One of these systems relates to the real-time capture of suspected suicide data, via Police-based data capture methods.