Words and artwork contributed by Anny, Lived Experience Practitioner with the Healthy London Partnership Adult Eating Disorder Programme A year since going public with my blog, I regularly find myself offering a disclaimer: what I say doesn’t represent the experience or feelings of every Black woman with an eating disorder in the UK. I […]
Provided by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Addiction Clinical Care Suite (ACCS) Universal Unit – this service is open to all and not specific to people who are sleeping rough The service is intended to address the gap in complex inpatient detoxification provision in London for those with co-occurring physical and mental health […]
As part of #AskAboutAsthma 2021 we are hosting daily webinars from 20 – 24th September focused on children and young people’s asthma care. These events are designed for stakeholders across the spectrum of CYP asthma systems in London. Details of these sessions and how to register can be found below. Ask The Expert CYP and Families […]
Find information below, including costs and referral information, for services run by the Pan-London Substance Misuse Programme. Addiction Clinical Care Suite at Guy and St Thomas’ NHS Hospital Provided by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust at St Thomas’ Hospital, the Addiction Clinical Care Suite (ACCS) treats people dealing with alcohol and/or drug dependency […]
About this programme There is strong evidence that people who sleep rough experience some of the starkest health inequalities in London. The average age of death of a person who sleeps rough in England is under 50 years old. People who sleep rough also experience higher levels of multiple, complex co-morbidities than other groups including […]
Complex mental health cases that are not deemed suitable for the NICE-recommended therapies provided by IAPT services, are often referred on to secondary care services provided by Mental Health Trusts. London IAPT services work and interact with secondary care to varying extents; some of the relationships that we explored are given below. We learnt that […]
Many IAPT services have been innovative in their approach in reaching out to ethnic minority groups to reduce the observed and reported disparity in access, experience and outcomes. We explored some of these approaches during our conversations with the services and have cited below some examples from London and other areas in England. We recommend […]
London Webinars The Healthy London Partnership (HLP) London Digital IAPT team and Thrive LDN produced a series of NHS Coping Well During COVID webinars to support Londoners with anxiety due to coronavirus. A second series called Keeping Well for Health and Care workers has also been developed. Each live webinar is 60-minutes long, led and […]
Context The NHS, and the wider health and care system, is committed to delivering information and services digitally wherever appropriate. For patients, digital health can mean better access to information and care, increased convenience, and more opportunities for greater control of their own health and shared care. For the health and care system digital health […]
Mental health conditions such as depression, self-harm, alcohol and drug abuse and suicidal thoughts can affect anyone, but they are more common among people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (or questioning) (LGBTIQ+). Being LGBTIQ+ does not cause these problems but some things LGBTIQ+ people go through can affect their mental health, such […]