As we approach National Self-Care Week (17–23 November 2025), new findings from the Living Self-Care Survey Study (www.selfcareforum.org/self-care-forum-research/) — conducted by the Self-Care Forum in partnership with Imperial College London’s Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU) — reveal a pressing need to rethink how we support self-care across the UK. Led by my colleague, Dr Peter Smith, president of the Self-Care Forum, the study is one of the largest of its kind and highlights a clear disconnect between public willingness to self-care and the professional systems meant to support it.