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 [...]
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 [...]
Marsha speaks with Andy about her physical and mental health experience:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last 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 [...]
