Add up to five of your favourite RCPsych pages to find them whenever you need.

You currently have no favourites. Visit and add pages to access them here.

    Health inequalities briefing pack

    We present a new online resource to support implementation of population-based approaches in health care, public health, and across sectors. 

    Cover of the PMHIC Health Inequalities Briefing Pack

    This briefing pack contains a series of quick guides to topics that are relevant to public mental health and health inequalities. It supports the implementation of population‑based approaches in healthcare, public health and across sectors. 

    Each section provides background information plus the actions that ICBs, trusts and clinicians can take to address the impacts of health inequalities on treatment and outcomes, across the health care and public health sectors.

    The briefing pack includes the following areas: 

    • Anchor institutions 
    • Core20PLUS5 (adults)
    • Core20PLUS5 (adults with SMI)
    • Criminal justice
    • Elective recovery
    • Ethnicity and discrimination 
    • Health literacy 
    • Housing 
    • Neurodivergence and sensory-friendly environments 
    • Poverty 
    • Research 
    • Smoking cessation 
    • Substance misuse 
    • Suicide prevention 
    • Sustainability and the climate emergency 
    • Trauma 
    • Unemployment 
    Read more to receive further information regarding a career in psychiatry