Rewilding Healthcare
CentreforMentalHealth2026-04-30T09:17:14+00:00Listening to experience, leading system change to improve palliative care for people living with complex mental health conditions Last month, a new Churchill Fellowship report [...]
New tool predicts physical health risks in young people with psychosis
CentreforMentalHealth2026-03-12T19:00:07+00:00Equally Well UK are working with McPin Foundation in supporting lived experience involvement in developing PsyMetRiC, one of the first risk prediction tools specifically for [...]
Equally Well UK seeking members to join a new advisory group
CentreforMentalHealth2025-10-30T16:08:06+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 help [...]
Reflecting on cancer and severe mental illness: Key Insights from the Equally Well UK Webinar
CentreforMentalHealth2025-06-04T08:29:43+00:00In March 2025, Equally Well UK hosted a webinar on Improving Outcomes for People Living with Cancer and Severe Mental Illness, shedding light on the [...]
The Census: Summary of Physical Health Census
CentreforMentalHealth2024-12-06T13:16:46+00:00Equally 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 [...]
BLOG: Reflecting on Global Collaboration for mental and physical health
CentreforMentalHealth2024-09-27T12:33:46+00:00In June of this year, Equally Well UK had the privilege of hosting 13 delegates from around the globe for a transformative Global Leadership Exchange [...]
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 [...]
Community Fibroscanning
Emma Bailey2023-02-06T12:12:59+00:00Dr Harriet Gordon, Consultant Hepatologist, Hampshire Hospitals FT and member of the Equally Well UK Clinical Group Liver disease is a major cause of death [...]
Right to Smile – Equally Well
Emma Bailey2025-09-22T10:53:44+00:00By 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
Emma Bailey2022-12-06T15:56:14+00:00Addressing health inequalities: developing a better understanding of physical health checks for people with severe mental illness from Black African and Caribbean communities by Jes [...]
Webinar: Do mental health professionals have the training they need to tackle smoking?
Emma Bailey2020-12-17T17:20:12+00:00https://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 [...]
Conversation with Dr Jonathan Bickford on physical health for people with SMI during Covid-19
Emma Bailey2021-04-08T15:13:27+00:00Dr Jonathan Bickford, member of the Equally Well Clinical Group chats to Emma Bailey, project manager about his experience and knowledge linking to the Equally [...]
Quit For Covid
Emma Bailey2020-06-12T10:52:23+00:00Hazel 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 [...]
Chairperson
Emma Bailey2019-10-16T11:31:51+00:00Process for selecting a Chairperson Equally Well UK is looking to appoint members and an independent Chairperson for our Oversight Group which will meet once [...]
The effects of medication on healthy weight management
Emma Bailey2019-07-04T17:14:17+00:00Ben Russell, Lived Experience Group member for Equally Well UK So, there was the time before, the time during and the time after. The time [...]
Why achieving parity of esteem must be viewed as a collaborative effort
Emma Bailey2026-01-28T14:21:27+00:00A 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 [...]
Facing the Universe: living with mental illness and cerebral palsy
Emma Bailey2019-04-12T07:37:00+00:00Ben 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 [...]
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) [...]
Mental illness, hepatitis C and addressing the inverse care law
Emma Bailey2019-03-29T11:10:28+00:00Pardeep 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 [...]
Stopping smoking: three new solutions to an old problem
Emma Bailey2019-03-13T18:01:46+00:00Peter Byrne, consultant psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital. Associate Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) & Member / anti-smoking lead of Clinical Advisory Group of Equally [...]
The proof of the Long Term Plan pudding will be in the eating
Emma Bailey2019-02-22T17:18:31+00:00Hazel Cheeseman, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) From the point of view of the Mental Health and Smoking Partnership there was much that looked [...]
Putting physical and mental health on an equal footing: Nikita’s reflections
Emma Bailey2018-11-08T12:32:16+00:00Throughout the webinar, we kept coming back to how if we are successful with Equally Well, it will cease to exist. It will be surplus [...]
My journey to Equally Well UK
Emma Bailey2018-10-16T13:57:49+00:00Glenn Westrop, AHP Clinical Fellow, NHS Improvement Reflections on my journey up to and after the Equally Well UK launch, why you need to be [...]
Missed opportunities: why we must do more for children’s mental health
Emma Bailey2019-04-15T15:30:38+00:00Laura 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 [...]