Poor mental health means it is much more difficult to recover good physical health. However, people often don't get the help and support they need to prevent or cope with this.
In addition, people with long term mental health problems often do not get the physical care they need and have an increased chance of developing illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
The Mental Health Foundation is working in partnership with physical health organisations and the Long Term Conditions Alliance to raise awareness of this issue, to ensure psychological support is provided to people with physical health problems if it's needed.
We will also be working to ensure these issues are included in training for healthcare professionals.
We want you to have your say on policy work including long-term physical conditions and mental health. By providing your contact details, we will be able to:
-
inform you of which policy work subjects we are concentrating on
-
invite you to feed in your opinions and experiences to help inform our policy work
-
build up a database of people who are interested in contributing their views on policy and mental health
Complete the have your say online form
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
