She said people prescribed antipsychotic medications could be prone to health issues like high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, cancer and liver disease.<\/p>\n
“We know from population health data that Shropshire and Telford have some of the highest incidence of deaths related to these,” she said.<\/p>\n
“By promoting sport we’re hoping to be able to support our service users and people with SMIs in the county to improve their lifestyle.”<\/p>\n
The scheme is funded through a grant from Sport England. <\/p>\n
“We’ve known with the tennis [it] is a great avenue for promoting your mental health; two years later it’s still going,” Parrish said.<\/p>\n
“That camaraderie, you’re with like-minded people, there’s no stigma and it’s free at the point of entry\u2026you get free equipment, free coaching.”<\/p>\n
Anyone over 18 who is considered to have an SMI – who are prescribed antipsychotic or mood-stabilising medication – and are registered with a GP in Shropshire – can register or book a place for sessions.<\/p>\n
“This currently runs until July this year and we’re hoping we’ll be able to extend them past that,” added Parrish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said people prescribed antipsychotic medications could be prone to health issues like high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-408617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}