Real Life and Real Time Physical Health

Join us for this webinar on Physical Health with a talk from Dr Ed Beveridge, followed by a panel discussion.

Main talk:
“The SMI mortality gap: will it ever close?”
This will cover the drivers of poor physical health in people living with mental illness, the opportunities we have to improve outcomes and the approach the College is taking to tackle the issue.

Panel Discussion:
The panel will discuss the challenges frontline clinicians face in supporting people with mental illness to manage their physical health and the challenges people living with or caring for someone with mental illness in maintaining good physical health – and share our ideas about how we can make positive changes in our own practice.

We hope the whole session will be interactive and will be happy to invite questions and contributions from participants.

For this webinar we will be joined by Dr Ed Beveridge, Presidential Lead for Physical Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Ed is from London. He trained in medicine at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. He undertook psychiatric training in North London and has worked as a consultant general adult psychiatrist in inpatient and community settings in London since 2008. Ed is clinical director for hospital services (Northern Divisions) at North London NHS Foundation Trust.

Ed has worked on improving the physical health of people living with mental illness for over 10 years. He has led improvement initiatives at local, trust, ICS and regional levels. He was trust lead for physical health in mental health services at CNWL NHS foundation trust. He is co-chair of the pan-London physical health leads’ network and previously led a regional improvement collaborative with Healthy London Partnership. He was previolsy clinical lead for mental health at UCLPartners academic health science network and honorary associate professor at UCL. He has taught and presented widely on the subject of improving physical health in people with severe mental illness.

His key objective is to reduce premature mortality among those living with mental illness, by addressing health inequity and inequality, promoting better access to health and care and improving parity of esteem between physical and mental health care across the health and care system. He is passionate about the power of coproduction with experts by experience as a driver of better care.

Ed is a qualified psychosomatic therapist, having trained at the Institut Psychosomatique Pierre Marty, Paris and is a member of the International Psychosomatic Association Pierre Marty (AIPPM).

This event is taking place online via Zoom. To take part you will need:

• access to a reliable internet connection
• a PC, laptop, tablet or phone
• Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser or Zoom installed on your PC, laptop, tablet or phone.

Please note: It is up to the participant to ensure that they have the correct requirements in place prior to booking the event.

Please kindly note, all sessions will be recorded and the recording made available within two weeks of the event.

We would encourage those who register to attend on the day of the event, should they wish to ask questions to our speakers.

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