Improving lung health for people with mental health conditions

A London Smoking and Mental Health webinar was held on 10 June, 12:30–2pm, bringing together clinical leaders, tobacco dependency teams, lived experience partners and lung health specialists from across London.

This session focused on improving lung health for people with mental health conditions, strengthening pathways into lung cancer screening, and supporting successful quit attempts in inpatient and community settings. The webinar recording includes:

• Welcome – Tracy Parr, LTA Programme Director
• Overview and meeting focus – Ed Beveridge, Medical Director, Central and North West London NHS FT
• Discussion on supporting early lung cancer detection in patients with mental health conditions – Ed Beveridge and Dr Adam P Januszewski, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Quality and Safety Lead, Barts Cancer Centre
• Inequalities in lung cancer pathways in SEL – Gracie Tredget, Programme Manager, South London and Maudsley NHS and Mind & Body Programme, King’s Health Partners
• Importance of lung screening, how it works and screening myths – Amy Hemmington, Health Promotion Lead, Lung Cancer Screening, University College London Hospitals NHS FT
• Prescription medicines use in mental health settings – Merja Hart, Tobacco Dependency Team Lead, Oxleas NHS FT
• Outtakes from two lived experience roundtables on smoking and severe mental illness – Samantha Holmes and Ian Callaghan, Rethink Mental Illness
• Panel discussion with questions – Led by Tracy Parr and Ed Beveridge