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 [...]
Emma Bailey, Project Manager for Equally Well UK at Centre for Mental Health Equally Well UK was formed to close the early mortality gap for [...]
Emma Bailey, Project Manager for Equally Well UK at Centre for Mental Health People with a diagnosis of severe mental illness too often have physical [...]
By Hope Virgo, Author and Mental Health Campaigner Eating disorders affect over 1.25 million people a year in the UK, but arguably this statistic is [...]
Emma Bailey, Project Manager for Equally Well UK at Centre for Mental Health Healthy Weight Management has been at the heart of Equally Well since [...]
Andy Bell, Deputy Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health Last month the Government announced its plans for the future of national public health activity, breaking [...]
Gaby Hasham, Senior Project Officer, Rethink Mental Illness The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has placed people with severe mental illness (defined in [...]
Andy Bell, Deputy Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health This week, NHS England and the British Medical Association announced changes to the standard GP contract [...]
I am over 65 and booked my free flu jab with the pharmacy at the end of September and had it done on the 9th of [...]
Hannah Moore, member of the Equally Well Expert by Experience Group As a child I was very active and competed as a dancer and in [...]
Dr Nick Hicks, Public Health Specialist and Founder of COBIC The data are shocking – people with serious mental illness die 15- 20 years sooner [...]
Genevieve Smyth Equally Well UK Clinical Group member from Royal College of Occupational Therapists Covid-19 has presented lots of opportunities to rethink and reframe challenges [...]
Emma Bailey, Project Manager for Equally Well UK Last week, the Government published a new strategy, Tackling obesity: empowering adults and children to lead healthier [...]
Hollie Melton and Nick Meader, University of York On average people with severe mental illness die 15-20 years earlier than the general population. They are [...]
Gaby Hasham, Senior Recovery and Outcomes Project Officer, Rethink Mental Illness On Tuesday 16 June, Rethink Mental Illness published the second of its COVID-19 briefings, [...]
Marsha McAdam, Expert by Experience member of Equally Well shares her experience and knowledge on ghrelin 'the hunger hormone' and what she would like medical [...]
Hazel Cheeseman, Director of Policy at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Why #QuitForCOVID The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed our lives, our routines and [...]
Ben Russell, Expert by Experience Group member for Equally Well UK So, the problem with hearing voices is that they’re distracting. Either whispering to me [...]
Marsha McAdam, Expert by Experience member of Equally Well This is now my third week of self-isolation, and I have to be honest and say [...]
Amanda 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 [...]
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 [...]
