title: Ending lethal discrimination against people with serious mental illness.
abstract: Each year in England 33 000 people diagnosed with a serious mental illness (SMI) die from causes that could have been avoided. Our mental-health-specific Atlas of Variation is the first to demonstrate the extent to which these inequalities and inequities affect mortality nationally.
authors.affiliation: Holly Taggart, MNurSci, RMN, MSc, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London; Sue Bailey, MBChB, FRCPsych, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, London, UK htaggart@rcpsych.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Taggart
authors.affiliation: Holly Taggart, MNurSci, RMN, MSc, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London; Sue Bailey, MBChB, FRCPsych, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, London, UK.
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bailey
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000401:mortality*; D008603:Mental Health / Q000592:standards*