Equally Well UK seeking members to join a new advisory group
CentreforMentalHealth2025-10-28T19:29:42+00:00Equally Well UK are looking for people with lived and living experience and experts by profession to sit on our new advisory group and [...]
Opportunity for people with experience of psychosis to help refine a risk calculator
CentreforMentalHealth2024-11-22T14:02:23+00:00Equally Well UK are excited to be working with Dr Benjamin Perry (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry), in association with University of Birmingham and McPin Foundation to support an important piece [...]
Equally Well UK launch new strategy for 2024 to 2027
CentreforMentalHealth2024-06-06T08:54:02+00:00We are delighted to announce our new strategy which will set our priorities for the next 3 years. September 2023 marked 5 years of [...]
The severity of food insecurity among people with a mental illness
CentreforMentalHealth2024-04-25T15:23:49+00:00Not being able to afford to buy the food you need to live healthily is one of most stark inequalities and injustices people face today [...]
Urgent action needed to address unacceptable inequalities facing people with severe mental illness
CentreforMentalHealth2023-10-19T11:35:45+00:00The shocking inequalities experienced by people living with severe mental illness must drive urgent action for change, Centre for Mental Health and Equally Well UK [...]
Counting the cost of health inequality
Shizana Arshad2023-05-04T09:39:34+00:00Andy Bell, CEO Centre for Mental Health In the three years up to the end of 2020, each year some 40,000 people living with a [...]
Equally Well UK welcomes Marsha McAdam and Hannah Moore as new Expert by Experience Group chair and vice-chair
Emma Bailey2022-10-19T12:24:46+00:0019 October 2022 Equally Well UK, the national collaborative for better physical health for people with a mental illness, is delighted to welcome Marsha McAdam [...]
Equally Well renews call for government to prioritise people living with severe mental illness for the flu vaccination
Helen Butlin2022-07-21T16:17:09+00:00Equally Well leaders have sent a letter to Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, asking that those living with severe mental [...]
New research to understand food insecurity experiences of adults living with a diagnosis of severe mental illness
Helen Butlin2022-03-31T19:35:20+00:00New research, which is the first of its kind in the UK, is being funded to learn more about adults living with food insecurity and [...]
Equally Well launches Global Call to Action to improve vaccine access for people living with mental health difficulties
Helen Butlin2021-10-26T23:19:43+00:00An international alliance of experts by experience and by profession is today calling for urgent action worldwide to remove barriers to accessing vaccines for preventable [...]
Greater risk of mortality from Covid-19 for people with severe mental illness is a wake-up call for action towards health equality
Helen Butlin2021-10-08T09:59:23+00:00Today research published in The Lancet Regional Health-Europe provides further evidence of the unacceptable inequalities faced by those living with severe mental illness. The study [...]
Ensure people with severe mental illness are eligible for flu vaccination, says Equally Well UK host organisation and partners
Helen Butlin2021-08-11T11:39:13+00:00Letter to the Minister of State for Vaccinations from the leaders of the campaign Equally Well UK, welcoming the Government’s pledge to embark on the [...]
Promoting equitable access to the Covid-19 vaccination for people with severe mental illness
Emma Bailey2021-08-22T13:09:56+00:00People of age 16 and over with a diagnosis of Severe Mental Illness in England are eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccination as part of priority group [...]
Equally Well UK launches guide to flu immunisation for people with severe mental illness
Emma Bailey2021-01-05T10:56:21+00:0010 December 2020 People living with a severe mental illness who are eligible for a free flu jab this winter will be encouraged to get [...]
People with mental illnesses dying too soon because of physical health conditions, new data shows
Emma Bailey2020-12-02T10:56:18+00:001 December 2020 People living with severe mental illness are 4.5 times more likely than average to die before they reach the age of 75 in [...]
Letter to the Ministers in response to the government obesity strategy
Emma Bailey2020-12-22T09:49:00+00:00Following the Government’s obesity strategy, Tackling obesity , Equally Well UK wrote to Nadine Dorries MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Jo [...]
Letter to Rt Hon Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Mental Health on flu vaccinations for people with SMI
Emma Bailey2020-12-22T09:49:52+00:00Equally Well UK wrote to Rt Hon Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health with the following letter on the 7 August 2020: Dear Mr [...]
Equally Well UK welcomes Kevin James as the new Expert by Experience Group Chair
Emma Bailey2020-07-02T14:35:02+00:00Equally Well UK welcomes Kevin James as the new Expert by Experience Group Chair Embargoed until 00.01 hours, 3 July 2020 Equally Well UK, a [...]
NEWS: Equally Well UK publishes guide to physical health for people living with severe mental illness during Covid-19
Emma Bailey2020-05-06T12:18:33+00:006 May 2020 Equally Well UK has today published a guide for people who are living with a mental illness about maintaining physical health during [...]
Equally Well UK welcomes Prof Wendy Burn as the new Clinical Group Chair
Emma Bailey2020-04-29T12:01:06+00:00Equally Well UK, a collaboration working towards equal physical health for people with a severe mental illness, is delighted to announce Prof Wendy Burn as [...]
Coronavirus: an update from Equally Well UK
Emma Bailey2022-09-26T08:01:25+00:00Coronavirus: an update from Equally Well UK As the coronavirus wears on, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by uncertainty. We will all have worries [...]
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 [...]
Equally Well annual membership conference
Emma Bailey2020-02-13T16:46:14+00:00Every year Equally Well holds a coproduced membership conference on the physical health of people with severe and enduring mental health problems. Last year we [...]
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 [...]