This study aimed to review the implementation of a smoking cessation programme across 16 community mental health day services. The aim was to establish the [...]

Sharing highlights and key messages from the 14 May 2018 Equally Well UK learning network event, hosted by Kings Health Partners. Please click here to [...]

This publication gives an overview of the work the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is doing to address the mortality gap between people with serious [...]

Comorbid mental illness and diabetes present a unique set of challenges both for the patient and for healthcare providers. The evidence for effective interventions is [...]

Public Health England has produced the following easy read guides for Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) Screening, Cervical screening, Breast Screening, Eye Screening for diabetes, Bowel [...]

A review of the evidence for smoking cessation interventions in severe mental illness (SMI) was needed to inform clinical guidelines. The review included a search [...]

Background People with severe mental ill health are more likely to smoke than those in the general population. It is therefore important that effective smoking [...]

A report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the Royal Colleges of General Practitioners, Nursing, Pathologists, Psychiatrists, Physicians, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and [...]

1. Background In England, there were 534,431 people on the 2016 to 2017 mental health register of the Quality and Outcome Framework in General Practice. Most of [...]

People with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are three times more likely to smoke than the wider population, contributing to widening health inequalities. Smoking [...]