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• 2023 Positive Cardiometabolic Health updates
  The algorithm has been updated for adolescents and adults for Australia and UK.

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Australia
Adolescent Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource
Adult Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource
 

United Kingdom

Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource - Lester UK Adaptation

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• Finnish Algorithm: A Finnish version of the algorithm is now available. Download now.
   

• Keeping the Body in Mind - The Lived Experience: Keeping the Body In Mind (KBIM) seeks to address the physical health and wellbeing of mental health service users through evidence-based and person centred lifestyle interventions. This latest video communicates individual perspectives and experiences of their KBIM journey.
   

• Portuguese HeAL Declaration: A Portuguese version of the HeAL Declaration is now available. Download now.
   

• Portuguese Algorithm: A Portuguese version of the algorithm is now available. Download now.
   

• French HeAL Declaration: A French version of the HeAL Declaration is now available. Download now.
   

• Swedish Algorithm: A Swedish version of the algorithm is now available. Download now.
   

• ​y-QUIT: Most young people who experience psychosis want to quit smoking but may need extra support to do so. y-QUIT: Keeping Your Body in Mind is a guide for you people experiencing psychosis or other mental health issues & want to quit smoking. Download the brochure.
   

• An iphYs Conference was held in Boston in October 2018. Find out more. View images from the conference.
   

• The algorithm for positive cardiometabolic health for people with intellectual disability is now available.
   

• The iphYs meeting in Boston will happen on October 11, 2018, at the end of the IEPA event. Find out more - including accommodation deals.
   

• There is now an online resource for Right from the Start. The latest version of the brochure is also available there.
   

• Call for papers for iphYs meeting in Boston, October 2018 
   

• Right from the Start brochure is now available as a resource for people in New South Wales, Australia.
   

• Right from the Start resource launched in the UK
  A resource to empower service users to ask their Mental Health Team or GP surgery for support to improve their physical health in the critical early treatment phase of psychosis when seeds of poor future health may be sewn. Linking with the Lester tool, this resource has been created by service users & practitioners from Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. March 2016.
   

• Evaluating an individualized lifestyle and life antipsychotic-induced weight gain in skills intervention to prevent first-episode psychosis 2015 paper demonstrating that lifestyle intervention can prevent weight gain in youth with psychosis

 

• Lancet Psychiatry Commentary Nov 2014: Cardiometabolic health in young people with psychosis 

 

• Lancet Psychiatry Editorial Aug 2014 on Physical and Mental Health referring to Algorithm and HeAL [Full text | PDF]
   

• A blog written by the Director of Public Health England August 2014 about the release of the Lester tool
   

• The guardian UK newspaper article about the Bondi Early Psychosis Programme July 2014
   

• UK media release to announce the updated Lester UK adaptation by Public Health England, who, along with NHS England, supported the update. 
   

• Dr David Shiers and Dr Jackie Curtis in conversation (February 2013)
  Emerging psychosis: approaches, tips, strategies for GPs and other mental health professionals. [This podcast is a collaboration between The Mental Health Services Conference (TheMHS) and Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN)]

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  The UK NICE guidance for adults with psychosis which includes HeAL and the Lester UK adaptation as an implementation resource

 

• The UK NICE guidance for chidren and young people with psychosis which includes HeAL and the Lester UK adaptation as an implementation resource

 

• The Royal College of GP’s (UK) Factsheets for improving physical health in people experiencing mental illness (updated July 2014).   
   

• RANZCP Youth Mental Health Symposium held in Melbourne in June 2013 presentations online including Dr Jackie Curtis speaking on “Improving physical health in young people with psychosis: time to get active”
   

• UK adaptation of the Australian Positive Cardiometabolic health resource developed by Dr Helen Lester and Dr David Shiers.
   

• The Japanese language version of the HeAL document is now available.
   

• HeAL has been launched in Italy. View the Italian language version of the HeAL declaration. 
   

• HeAL program to be adopted across NSW - Mental Health Commission of NSW