EKU Podcast: Physical health in severe mental illness

RCGP eLearning Podcast

Apr 23, 202529:39Science & Medicine

People living with severe mental illness face one of the greatest health equality gaps in England. Their life expectancy is 15–20 years shorter than that for the general population, and this disparity is largely due to p...

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