Peter Byrne has been an NHS consultant psychiatrist for over 20 years, working mostly in general hospitals. These are worrying times: extraordinary measures to contain [...]
Coronavirus: an update from Equally Well UK As the coronavirus wears on, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by uncertainty. We will all have worries [...]
Linda Nazarko, Nurse Consultant Physical Health Care at West London NHS Trust People with mental health problems are more likely to have physical health problems [...]
Prof Dame Sue Bailey, Co-Chair of Equally Well UK Day The Covid-19 outbreak has made us face an unprecedented challenge to public health that few [...]
Given the current situation with the coronavirus, COVID-19, and mindful that a number of our speakers and attendees have underlying health conditions which would increase their risk of becoming unwell [...]
Every year Equally Well holds a coproduced membership conference on the physical health of people with severe and enduring mental health problems. Last year we [...]
Christian Demaine-Stone, Darzi Fellow working with Equally Well UK I am a Darzi fellow: an experienced manager /clinician funded by Health Education England to embark [...]
Ciaran Osborne, Director of Policy and Pretty Rahman, Communications Manager at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Many of us struggle to manage our physical and mental [...]
A two part Equally Well UK podcast, Tim and Hannah from the RCN talk about Parity of Esteem and their professional and personal lived experience [...]
Process for selecting a Chairperson Equally Well UK is looking to appoint members and an independent Chairperson for our Oversight Group which will meet once [...]
A series of two podcasts created by RCGP on Equally Well UK with funding from Sports England. Episode 1 - Chris Lynch, Lived Experience Adviser [...]
Emily 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 [...]
Dr David Shiers This is the latest addition to RIGHT FROM THE START, a set of resources aiming to equip service users and families with [...]
Kevin James from the Equally Well UK lived experience group with Emily Peckham and Tim Bradshaw from Closing the Gap. On the topic [...]
Ben Russell, Lived Experience Group member for Equally Well UK So, there was the time before, the time during and the time after. The time [...]
Sophie 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 [...]
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 [...]
