People living with both mental and physical health issues, their families, and the health and social care professionals who support them should have input on the most important questions to research.
To do this, we undertook a research priority setting exercise.
100+ people living with mental and physical health problems, informal caregivers, and health and social care professionals, responded, suggesting a wide range of topics, creating a long list of questions. They covered what would help people with mental health conditions look after their physical health, and what treatments and services could make a real difference.
Next we asked people to tell us which 20 questions were the most important. Again over 100 people responded, giving us the top 20 research priorities.
A research priority setting workshop had 23 attendees including people with lived experience, carers, clinicians, and researchers. Discussions took place to refine the top 20 priorities to 10.