Don't Just Screen, Intervene: Improving Physical Health in UK Mental Healthcare
By Matt Waugh, 2024
Fellow’s Profile
Matt Waugh
Fellow’s Profile
Matt Waugh
Physical Health Programmes in Mental Healthcare
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Physical Health Programmes in Mental Healthcare
Countries
Fellowship year
2020
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Locality
London
Biography
I am a mental health nurse and fitness instructor on a psychiatric intensive care unit, where we have developed personalised physical health programmes.
I founded LiveMore, a social enterprise to develop gyms in mental healthcare. We have improved 6 hospital ward gyms.
We are developing a community gym, as a collaboration between psychological therapies and mental health services. We will use this gym to improve physical activity and nutrition support in mental healthcare, undertaking translational research.
My Churchill Fellowship was to Australia, learning from mental health services such as Keeping the Body in Mind (KBIM), who have successfully scaled and evaluated personalised physical health programmes.
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Acknowledgements
CNWL NHS Trust
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Acknowledgements
CNWL NHS Trust
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
