Diagnostic Overshadowing

Diagnostic overshadowing

People with mental health problems experience diagnostic overshadowing. This is reports of physical ill health being viewed as part of the mental health problem or learning disability and therefore not investigated or treated.  Undertaking a full physical health check for patients with SMI helps identify opportunities for evidence-based interventions which can reduce people’s risk of death, avoidable ill health and reduce health inequalities.

Source: https://primarycare.lancashireandsouthcumbria.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250527-A-practical-guide-to-delivering-physical-health-checks-for-people-with-SMI.pdf?x23654

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MIND	Surely, it's the mind -
	not the body?