Living with mental illness during COVID-19: Addressing inequalities

What the session will cover?

This webinar will focus on supporting people with Serious Mental Illnesses during the coronavirus (COVID19) outbreak in England.

Centre for Mental Health and Equally Well have been working throughout the pandemic to boost efforts to protect mental health and support people with mental health difficulties at this most challenging time.

The webinar will provide up-to-date insights from research and from lived experience about how Covid-19 has affected people living with mental health difficulties in England. It will focus on inequalities in mental and physical health and some of the measures that are being taken to address them. It will give participants working across the system practical suggestions about how they can reduce inequalities and promote better physical and mental health in their locality.

Who should attend?

Health and social care staff, first responders (police, ambulance, firefighters), frontline public-sector staff (housing and employment), essential workers (food delivery, sanitation, funeral care), community leaders and groups, volunteers, and supervisors and managers.

Speakers

• Andy Bell (Chair) – Executive Director for the Centre for Mental Health and Equally Well programme.
• Kevin James – Chair of the Equally Well Lived Experience Group, and Peer Consultant and Lived Experience Lead
• Arfan Hanif – Operations Director at Touchstone Leeds
• Wendy Burn – Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist and Chair of Equally Well Clinical Group

Where this will be delivered?

Information on how to access will be shared closer to the date of the webinar.

Please send your questions for the Q&A session to:

PublicMentalHealth@phe.gov.uk

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