People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are at a much higher risk of premature death in that they die between [...]
What does Equally Well UK mean to me? To start at the beginning I’ve been a member of the Equally Well UK Expert by [...]
We are delighted to announce our new strategy which will set our priorities for the next 3 years. September 2023 marked 5 years of [...]
Not being able to afford to buy the food you need to live healthily is one of most stark inequalities and injustices people face today [...]
Jan Hutchinson, Centre for Mental Health An ongoing challenge for people with a severe mental illness is that the priority which is given to their [...]
The shocking inequalities experienced by people living with severe mental illness must drive urgent action for change, Centre for Mental Health and Equally Well UK [...]
Dietitians have an important role in improving the physical health of people with severe mental illness. People with severe mental illness tend to eat more [...]
Hannah 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 [...]
Lisa, Verity and Sheena, Transformation Partners in Health and Care The team at Transformation Partners in Health and Care is working to ensure the physical [...]
Andy 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 [...]
Nikita Le Sauvage, Equally Well UK Expert by Experience member As an expert by experience, I have been fortunate to have had many examples of [...]
Dr Harriet Gordon, Consultant Hepatologist, Hampshire Hospitals FT and member of the Equally Well UK Clinical Group Liver disease is a major cause of death [...]
By 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 for people with severe mental illness from Black African and Caribbean communities by Jes [...]
19 October 2022 Equally Well UK, the national collaborative for better physical health for people with a mental illness, is delighted to welcome Marsha McAdam [...]
by 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 leaders have sent a letter to Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, asking that those living with severe mental [...]
by Rebecca Hall, Physical Health Lead for Leicestershire Partnership Trust and a GP Partner in a practice in Loughborough A core value of Equally Well [...]
New research, which is the first of its kind in the UK, is being funded to learn more about adults living with food insecurity and [...]
By Suffolk User Forum Healthy Together Team (pictured: James Woolnough, Healthy Together Interim Project Coordinator, Chloe Newman, Healthy Together Peer Support Worker and Alex Knight, [...]
By Hazel Cheeseman, Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Smoking and Health People with mental health conditions die on average 10-20 years earlier than the general [...]
Nuwan Dissanayaka, Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust The pandemic has rendered life unrecognisable. We don our masks and gloves as if pulling on our [...]
An international alliance of experts by experience and by profession is today calling for urgent action worldwide to remove barriers to accessing vaccines for preventable [...]
Today research published in The Lancet Regional Health-Europe provides further evidence of the unacceptable inequalities faced by those living with severe mental illness. The study [...]
