Equally Well UK seeking members to join a new advisory group
CentreforMentalHealth2025-10-28T19:29:42+00:00Equally Well UK are looking for people with lived and living experience and experts by profession to sit on our new advisory group and [...]
Fitness, mental health and me: breaking down the barriers to exercise with a severe mental illness
CentreforMentalHealth2025-09-22T17:01:08+00:00I’m Hannah; I am an expert by lived experience with Equally Well UK and I have a severe mental illness. I say that I work for Equally [...]
Unseen and unscreened: Mental health inequity in cancer screening
CentreforMentalHealth2025-09-22T12:15:15+00:00Did you know that people living with severe mental illness in England are nearly two and a half times more likely to die prematurely from [...]
Reflecting on cancer and severe mental illness: Key Insights from the Equally Well UK Webinar
CentreforMentalHealth2025-06-04T08:29:43+00:00In March 2025, Equally Well UK hosted a webinar on Improving Outcomes for People Living with Cancer and Severe Mental Illness, shedding light on the [...]
The Census: Summary of Physical Health Census
CentreforMentalHealth2024-12-06T13:16:46+00:00Equally Well UK’s work has successively highlighted the gaps that people with severe mental illness face in accessing adequate support for their physical health. In [...]
Opportunity for people with experience of psychosis to help refine a risk calculator
CentreforMentalHealth2024-11-22T14:02:23+00:00Equally Well UK are excited to be working with Dr Benjamin Perry (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry), in association with University of Birmingham and McPin Foundation to support an important piece [...]
BLOG: Reflecting on Global Collaboration for mental and physical health
CentreforMentalHealth2024-09-27T12:33:46+00:00In June of this year, Equally Well UK had the privilege of hosting 13 delegates from around the globe for a transformative Global Leadership Exchange [...]
BLOG: The impact of providing care for physical health in severe mental illness on informal carers: a qualitative study
CentreforMentalHealth2024-07-11T10:24:20+00:00People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are at a much higher risk of premature death in that they die between [...]
I dreamed a dream
CentreforMentalHealth2024-07-11T10:32:21+00:00What does Equally Well UK mean to me? To start at the beginning I’ve been a member of the Equally Well UK Expert by [...]
Equally Well UK launch new strategy for 2024 to 2027
CentreforMentalHealth2024-06-06T08:54:02+00:00We are delighted to announce our new strategy which will set our priorities for the next 3 years. September 2023 marked 5 years of [...]
The severity of food insecurity among people with a mental illness
CentreforMentalHealth2024-04-25T15:23:49+00:00Not being able to afford to buy the food you need to live healthily is one of most stark inequalities and injustices people face today [...]
Being ‘Equally Well’: Can we achieve this for people with severe mental illness?
CentreforMentalHealth2024-01-24T13:45:25+00:00Jan Hutchinson, Centre for Mental Health An ongoing challenge for people with a severe mental illness is that the priority which is given to their [...]
Urgent action needed to address unacceptable inequalities facing people with severe mental illness
CentreforMentalHealth2023-10-19T11:35:45+00:00The shocking inequalities experienced by people living with severe mental illness must drive urgent action for change, Centre for Mental Health and Equally Well UK [...]
New graduate posts in mental health: a challenging yet rewarding start to a career in Dietetics
CentreforMentalHealth2023-10-16T13:08:13+00:00Dietitians have an important role in improving the physical health of people with severe mental illness. People with severe mental illness tend to eat more [...]
Personal experience of receiving the SMI Physical Health Check
CentreforMentalHealth2023-02-20T16:13:09+00:00Nikita Le Sauvage, Equally Well UK Expert by Experience member As an expert by experience, I have been fortunate to have had many examples of [...]