Medscape March 17, 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has suggested there is an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, he said, “mental wellbeing, illness, it’s a spectrum and I think definitely there’s an overdiagnosis, but there’s too many people being written off.”
Streeting was speaking about planned government reforms aimed at reducing the benefits bill, but his comments chimed with evidence suggesting that mental health in the United Kingdom has worsened in recent years and concerns about the effectiveness and availability of treatment.
As part of its ‘Change the Prescription’ research, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) polled 1001 general practitioners (GPs). The think tank found four in five GPs were worried that the stresses and...
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