A new publication from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Tim Coupland, a mental health nurse, leads for the RCN’s Parity of Esteem Programme and [...]
Sara Hurley, CDO England It is an uncomfortable fact that people with mental health difficulties are disproportionately affected by poor oral health (Kisely et al., [...]
Ben Russell, Lived Experience Group member for Equally Well UK *Please be aware that this blog contains themes around self-harm and suicide which some might [...]
We are delighted to invite you to the first of a series of 2019-20 learning events aimed at Equally Well members and partners on 14 May [...]
Ben Russell, Lived Experience Group member for Equally Well UK *please be aware that this blog contains themes that some may find triggering. I’m in [...]
Ciaran Osborne, Director of Policy, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) More than two in five people with severe mental illness (such as schizophrenia, bipolar) [...]
People living with a severe mental illness are more than three times as likely to smoke tobacco. Tobacco smoking is one of the biggest contributors [...]
Pardeep Grewal, consultant psychiatrist, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust The inverse care law is one we should all know about. It was devised in [...]
Marsha speaks with Andy about her physical and mental health experience:
Peter Byrne, consultant psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital. Associate Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) & Member / anti-smoking lead of Clinical Advisory Group of Equally [...]
Jo Lucas, written from the heart as a mental health professional, who also happens to be a Non-Executive Director for a Mental Health Trust Parity of esteem has become [...]
Hannah Lewis, Senior Policy and Practice Officer, Rethink Mental Illness For too long, society’s messaging regarding obesity has been stigmatising, accusatory, and encouraging of disordered eating [...]
EQUALLY WELL UK ANNOUNCES TWO MAJOR WORK STREAMS FOR 2019: HEALTHY WEIGHT MANAGEMENT AND TOBACCO SMOKING For immediate release: 26 February 2019 Equally Well UK, the nationwide collaborative [...]
Listen to the series of podcasts series created for us by The Mental Elf André Tomlin, one of the Equally Well UK members.
Hazel Cheeseman, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) From the point of view of the Mental Health and Smoking Partnership there was much that looked [...]
Andy Bell, Centre for Mental Health The NHS Long Term Plan was published on 7 January 2019 setting out NHS England’s priorities for the next decade [...]
Marsha McAdam, Equally Well Lived Experience Group member, Co-chair of Personality Disorder Strategy Group and Chair of Greater Manchester Adult MH Service User Network I [...]
Dr Alan Cohen, Chair of the Clinical Advisory Group Equally Well – always has some risks. Will it succeed? Do we know what “succeed” looks [...]
Throughout the webinar, we kept coming back to how if we are successful with Equally Well, it will cease to exist. It will be surplus [...]
October 18 2018 Resources Webinar Slides Q Risk 3 Tool - Please seek medical advice if you have any concerns. New collaboration funder site.
Glenn Westrop, AHP Clinical Fellow, NHS Improvement Reflections on my journey up to and after the Equally Well UK launch, why you need to be [...]
Laura Benner-Hughes, Equally Well Lived Experience Group member World Mental Health Day: Young people and mental health in a changing world At the age 12 of I was a [...]
Andy Bell, Centre for Mental Health It is well established that people with a long-term mental health condition have far shorter lives than average in [...]
Natalie Skinner, Kaleidoscope New Zealand is home to beautiful mountains, an impressive prime minister and can also claim to be the birth place of Equally [...]
