Equally Well UK are looking for people with lived and living experience and experts by profession to sit on our new advisory group and help [...]
In March 2025, Equally Well UK hosted a webinar on Improving Outcomes for People Living with Cancer and Severe Mental Illness, shedding light on the [...]
Equally Well UK’s work has successively highlighted the gaps that people with severe mental illness face in accessing adequate support for their physical health. In [...]
In June of this year, Equally Well UK had the privilege of hosting 13 delegates from around the globe for a transformative Global Leadership Exchange [...]
Andy 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 [...]
Dr Harriet Gordon, Consultant Hepatologist, Hampshire Hospitals FT and member of the Equally Well UK Clinical Group Liver disease is a major cause of death [...]
By Ian Callaghan, He/Him, Recovery & Secure Care Manager and Equally Well UK, Rethink Mental Illness Equally Well UK has been passionate about improving oral [...]
Addressing health inequalities: developing a better understanding of physical health checks for people with severe mental illness from Black African and Caribbean communities by Jes [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F-6RTOoRow&feature=youtu.be This joint webinar by Equally Well UK and the Mental Health and Smoking Partnership looks at the role of training in equipping staff in [...]
Dr Jonathan Bickford, member of the Equally Well Clinical Group chats to Emma Bailey, project manager about his experience and knowledge linking to the Equally [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
Peter Byrne, consultant psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital. Associate Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) & Member / anti-smoking lead of Clinical Advisory Group of Equally [...]
Hazel Cheeseman, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) From the point of view of the Mental Health and Smoking Partnership there was much that looked [...]
Throughout the webinar, we kept coming back to how if we are successful with Equally Well, it will cease to exist. It will be surplus [...]
Glenn Westrop, AHP Clinical Fellow, NHS Improvement Reflections on my journey up to and after the Equally Well UK launch, why you need to be [...]
Laura Benner-Hughes, Equally Well Lived Experience Group member World Mental Health Day: Young people and mental health in a changing world At the age 12 of I was a [...]
Andy Bell, Centre for Mental Health It is well established that people with a long-term mental health condition have far shorter lives than average in [...]
One of the podcasts in a series created for us by Mental Elf André Tomlin. Kevin James, from the Equally Well Lived Experience Group [...]
