Collaborative formed by @CentreforMH & Royal Colleges to bring about equal physical health for people with SMI #EquallyWellUK
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This World Mental Health Day and Black History Month, we are spotlighting the urgent need to address physical health inequalities faced by Black people living with severe mental illness (SMI) who experience a compounded disadvantage.
To bridge this gap, we must champion integrated, culturally safe care. Initiatives like the PCREF and targeted community-led training are vital steps toward breaking down institutional barriers and ensuring equal access to life-saving physical healthcare.
Learn more about the Centre's work on race equality: centreformentalhealth.org.uk…
To bridge this gap, we must champion integrated, culturally safe care. Initiatives like PCREF and targeted community-led training are vital steps toward breaking down institutional barriers and ensuring equal access to life-saving physical healthcare.
Learn more about the Centre's work on race equality: centreformentalhealth.org.uk…
Given higher prevalence of smoking and significant contribution of tobacco-related illness to the physical health and mortality gap, this consultation is an opportunity to ensure that people with SMI are explicitly considered in tobacco policy.
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New report has put a stark fact back in the spotlight: adults with severe mental illness die 15-20 years earlier on average. Closing the Mortality Gap is the new report from Rethink Mental Illness: rethink.org/campaigns-and-po…
This is an injustice, not an inevitability. Now is a crucial moment to act. With Equally Well UK, we are asking government to set a clear national target to reduce the life expectancy gap. equallywell.co.uk
This life expectancy gap is unjust and avoidable. Change is possible if government start taking these issues seriously.
We are supporting the Health Equals campaign in calling for a change in the law to tackle health inequalities.
Explore the campaign: bit.ly/4bGLDLR
In our latest blog, Fran Gilmore shares her lived experience and explores what happens when mental health risks falling between gaps in neurology, primary care and mental health services.
Read the blog 👇
#EquallyWell #MentalHealth #PhysicalHealth
equallywell.co.uk/2026/08/14…
Sight loss is an important part of physical health – but could it be going undetected in people living with severe mental illness? @NVTweeting @PocklingtonHub
Read our latest blog 👇
equallywell.co.uk/2026/08/18…
