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 [...]
Cervical smears, mental illness and trauma
Shizana Arshad2023-09-07T17:17:17+00:00Hannah Moore, Vice-Chair, Expert by Experience group, Equally Well UK Having a cervical smear test isn’t pleasant for anyone. But for someone with a mental [...]
Supporting people with Personality Disorders to receive joined up physical and mental healthcare
Shizana Arshad2023-04-27T17:13:22+00:00Lisa, Verity and Sheena, Transformation Partners in Health and Care The team at Transformation Partners in Health and Care is working to ensure the physical [...]
Counting the cost of health inequality
Shizana Arshad2023-05-04T09:39:34+00:00Andy Bell, CEO Centre for Mental Health In the three years up to the end of 2020, each year some 40,000 people living with a [...]
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 [...]
Community Fibroscanning
Emma Bailey2023-02-06T12:12:59+00:00Dr Harriet Gordon, Consultant Hepatologist, Hampshire Hospitals FT and member of the Equally Well UK Clinical Group Liver disease is a major cause of death [...]
Right to Smile – Equally Well
Emma Bailey2025-09-22T10:53:44+00:00By Ian Callaghan, He/Him, Recovery & Secure Care Manager and Equally Well UK, Rethink Mental Illness Equally Well UK has been passionate about improving oral [...]
Addressing health inequalities: developing a better understanding of physical health checks
Emma Bailey2022-12-06T15:56:14+00:00Addressing health inequalities: developing a better understanding of physical health checks for people with severe mental illness from Black African and Caribbean communities by Jes [...]
Equally Well UK welcomes Marsha McAdam and Hannah Moore as new Expert by Experience Group chair and vice-chair
Emma Bailey2022-10-19T12:24:46+00:0019 October 2022 Equally Well UK, the national collaborative for better physical health for people with a mental illness, is delighted to welcome Marsha McAdam [...]
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust – Connecting for a Better Life
Helen Butlin2022-08-18T23:24:13+00:00by Louise Nicholson, Clinical Nurse Lead for Physical Health (Oxford - Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Wards) If you are wondering what the frisson [...]
Equally Well renews call for government to prioritise people living with severe mental illness for the flu vaccination
Helen Butlin2022-07-21T16:17:09+00:00Equally Well leaders have sent a letter to Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, asking that those living with severe mental [...]