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National Voices is collaborating with the Centre for Mental Health to better understand what helps the emotional wellbeing of people with long term conditions, and those who support them.

Centre for Mental Health’s research has highlighted the gaps between mental and physical health support in the NHS and demonstrated the case for investment in services including liaison psychiatry, perinatal mental health care and psychological therapies for people with long-term conditions.

We are looking to understand people’s experiences of managing the emotional and psychological impact of living with these conditions. We want to understand whether and how people’s emotional support needs are recognised, whether they are met, and how we can improve this support.

We want to speak to people whose lives are affected by long-term physical health conditions.  By this we mean conditions that can be managed but often not cured, such as diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, some cancers and cardiovascular diseases, and many other conditions that are not as widely known.

We are especially keen to include people from groups that are sometimes under-represented in research, for example older people, people from black and minority ethnic communities, people who identify as LGBT+, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.