The course is for primary care staff providing annual health checks to service users with complex mental and physical health needs. It covers how physical health monitoring brings better outcomes for service users with serious mental illness and considers co-morbidities, whereby mental health problems among people with physical illnesses are costly for both our health system and the wider society.

Learning objectives

After completing this course those attending will gain knowledge, understanding, and confidence in:

• Understand the importance of physical health monitoring to improve outcomes for service users with severe mental illness
• Improve knowledge of physical health co-morbidities for people with severe mental illness
• Improve the physical health outcomes for people with severe mental illness
• Improve knowledge of severe mental illness and how to communicate effectively with this group