Webinar Replay
How can we meet the palliative care needs of people living with severe mental illness and advanced incurable illness: lessons from an international Churchill Fellowship
Summary:
About the Webinar
People living with severe mental illness (SMI) face some of the starkest health inequalities in our systems—especially when they develop advanced, incurable physical illnesses. Despite high need, they are less likely to access palliative care, more likely to rely on emergency services, and often experience fragmented, impersonal care.
This webinar draws on international insights from a Churchill Fellowship (U.S., Canada, Australia) to explore how we can redesign palliative care through relationship-centred, system-connected models that work across mental and physical health boundaries.
What You’ll Learn
- Why people with SMI are often excluded from high-quality palliative care and what we can do about it
- How we might reframe risk and enable relational, person-centred care: a vision for collective social safety: “being safe with each other, regardless of the situation”
- Potential practical interventions to support integrated, mobile, and collaborative care teams
- How we can better build systems that make it easy to do the right thing—for patients and professionals alike
- Key recommendations to drive change
You can find the handout of the session here
Key speakers:
Dr Sarah Yardley, Associate Professor, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London & Churchill Fellow
Daniel Shalev, MD, Assistant Professor , Weill Cornell Medical College
Madeline Li, Professor, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital