Chairperson
Emma Bailey2019-10-16T11:31:51+00:00Process for selecting a Chairperson Equally Well UK is looking to appoint members and an independent Chairperson for our Oversight Group which will meet once [...]
Two podcasts created by RCGP on Equally Well UK
Emma Bailey2019-09-18T10:36:57+00:00A series of two podcasts created by RCGP on Equally Well UK with funding from Sports England. Episode 1 - Chris Lynch, Lived Experience Adviser [...]
Healthy Weight Management meeting
Emma Bailey2019-07-30T14:16:12+00:00Emily Peckham, Closing the Gap On the 5th July we held a Healthy Weight Management meeting at King’s Manor in York. The meeting was a [...]
y-QUIT: a resource to support people experiencing psychosis who want to stop smoking
Emma Bailey2019-09-18T11:35:53+00:00Dr David Shiers This is the latest addition to RIGHT FROM THE START, a set of resources aiming to equip service users and families with [...]
Podcast- tobacco smoking
Emma Bailey2020-07-01T08:16:59+00:00Kevin James from the Equally Well UK lived experience group with Emily Peckham and Tim Bradshaw from Closing the Gap. On the topic [...]
The effects of medication on healthy weight management
Emma Bailey2019-07-04T17:14:17+00:00Ben Russell, Lived Experience Group member for Equally Well UK So, there was the time before, the time during and the time after. The time [...]
King’s Health Partners Deliver a Successful Equally Well UK Event
Emma Bailey2019-06-21T16:10:49+00:00Sophie Gray, Senior Project Manager at Mind & Body, King’s Health Partners King’s Health Partners and our partner Trusts signed up to the national Equally [...]
Why achieving parity of esteem must be viewed as a collaborative effort
Emma Bailey2019-05-21T09:11:29+00:00A 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 [...]
Putting the mouth back in the body – why oral health matters in mental health care
Emma Bailey2019-05-13T07:56:20+00:00Sara Hurley, CDO England It is an uncomfortable fact that people with mental health difficulties are disproportionately affected by poor oral health (Kisely et al., [...]
Dealing with the invisible illness: psychosis in A&E
Emma Bailey2019-05-10T13:04:32+00:00Ben 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 [...]
First of a series of learning events
Emma Bailey2019-04-18T10:11:56+00:00We 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 [...]
Facing the Universe: living with mental illness and cerebral palsy
Emma Bailey2019-04-12T07:37:00+00:00Ben 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 [...]
Breaking the link between smoking and severe mental illness
Emma Bailey2019-04-15T15:23:21+00:00Ciaran Osborne, Director of Policy, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) More than two in five people with severe mental illness (such as schizophrenia, bipolar) [...]
Smoking and mental health: results of the SCIMITAR+ trial
Emma Bailey2019-04-15T18:17:04+00:00People living with a severe mental illness are more than three times as likely to smoke tobacco. Tobacco smoking is one of the biggest contributors [...]
Mental illness, hepatitis C and addressing the inverse care law
Emma Bailey2019-03-29T11:10:28+00:00Pardeep 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 McAdam talks to Andy Bell about her physical and mental health experience
Emma Bailey2019-03-25T19:24:56+00:00Marsha speaks with Andy about her physical and mental health experience:
Stopping smoking: three new solutions to an old problem
Emma Bailey2019-03-13T18:01:46+00:00Peter Byrne, consultant psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital. Associate Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) & Member / anti-smoking lead of Clinical Advisory Group of Equally [...]
Mental and physical health: why parity of esteem must be more than words
Emma Bailey2019-03-25T16:39:42+00:00Jo 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 [...]
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Eating Disorders Awareness Week: How can Equally Well UK bridge the gap between eating disorder prevention and healthy weight management for people living with a mental illness? GalleryEating Disorders Awareness Week: How can Equally Well UK bridge the gap between eating disorder prevention and healthy weight management for people living with a mental illness?
Eating Disorders Awareness Week: How can Equally Well UK bridge the gap between eating disorder prevention and healthy weight management for people living with a mental illness?
Emma Bailey2019-03-25T16:36:33+00:00Hannah 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
Emma Bailey2019-02-26T16:24:00+00:00EQUALLY 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 [...]
Equally Well UK Podcasts – Created by The Mental Elf
Emma Bailey2019-02-22T17:10:07+00:00Listen to the series of podcasts series created for us by The Mental Elf André Tomlin, one of the Equally Well UK members.
The proof of the Long Term Plan pudding will be in the eating
Emma Bailey2019-02-22T17:18:31+00:00Hazel Cheeseman, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) From the point of view of the Mental Health and Smoking Partnership there was much that looked [...]
A Long Term Plan for Equal Health? The implications of the NHS Plan for Equally Well
Emma Bailey2019-09-18T12:58:14+00:00Andy 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 [...]
Stop the roller coaster, I want to get off!
Emma Bailey2019-04-15T15:33:52+00:00Marsha 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 [...]