NHS Education for Scotland (NES) commissioned independent qualitative research to help inform the development of a planned new learning resource for a range of professionals who might provide support to individuals experiencing suicidal crisis. The research included engagement with Frontline practitioners/service providers (including health, social care, voluntary, private and public sector services) - to explore the skills and knowledge perceived as being necessary to support a person (and their friends, families, supporters) in suicidal crisis; and People with lived experience of suicidal crisis, their families, friends and supporters - to explore what responses they perceived as both helpful and unhelpful when accessing services to support them.