Reducing health inequalities through general practice
Emma Bailey2020-03-30T11:07:50+00:00Amanda was due to speak at our event that was postponed due to Covid-19, so has kindly shared what she was due to say in [...]
Positive mental health during self-isolation for Coronavirus / Covid-19
Emma Bailey2020-03-27T09:17:41+00:00Peter 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
Emma Bailey2020-03-30T09:31:47+00:00Coronavirus: an update from Equally Well UK As circumstances develop due to coronavirus, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by uncertainty. We will all have [...]
Bridging the gap: bringing diabetes and mental health care together
Emma Bailey2020-03-17T12:43:26+00:00Linda Nazarko, Nurse Consultant Physical Health Care at West London NHS Trust People with mental health problems are more likely to have physical health problems [...]
Equally Well Day
Emma Bailey2020-03-27T09:18:12+00:00Prof 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 [...]
Equally Well Day postponed
Emma Bailey2020-03-27T09:18:56+00:00Given 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 [...]
Smoking cessation support for people with severe mental illness
Emma Bailey2020-01-28T16:49:26+00:00Christian 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 [...]
Mental health trusts need to do more to help smokers with mental health conditions quit
Emma Bailey2019-11-07T16:14:30+00:00Ciaran 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
Delivering change: How Equally Well will help local services make a difference
Emma Bailey2019-01-09T17:34:23+00:00Dr Alan Cohen, Chair of the Clinical Advisory Group Equally Well – always has some risks. Will it succeed? Do we know what “succeed” looks [...]
Five things we learned at Equally Well UK
Emma Bailey2019-03-13T18:31:16+00:00Natalie Skinner, Kaleidoscope New Zealand is home to beautiful mountains, an impressive prime minister and can also claim to be the birth place of Equally [...]
Joining forces for Equal Health: launching Equally Well UK
Emma Bailey2019-02-22T17:23:49+00:00Last week, Public Health England’s new Health Profiles for England document reported that premature mortality among people with a severe mental illness was some 3.7 [...]