57 h. ago Doctors overdiagnosing mental health conditions, Streeting says, amid expected benefit reforms

Health secretary says too many people are ‘written off’ by welfare system

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59 h. ago Doctors ‘overdiagnosing’ mental health conditions, says Health Secretary

Mental health charity Mind said it was important to be 'extremely careful' with the language around mental health diagnoses

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60 h. ago Doctors ‘overdiagnosing’ mental health conditions, says Streeting

Mental health charity Mind said it was important to be careful with the language around mental health diagnoses to avoid ‘stigmatising’.

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62 h. ago Wes Streeting warns of mental health 'overdiagnosis' as he defends DWP benefit shake

The Government is understood to have dropped plans to freeze the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) from upcoming reforms designed to reduce the size of the welfare bill

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65 h. ago Wes Streeting says doctors are 'overdiagnosing' mental health conditions as Labour tries to get a grip on Britain's ballooning benefits bill

Almost four million working-age adults in England and Wales currently claim incapacity or disability benefits, up from 2.8 million before the Covid pandemic.

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66 h. ago NHS is ‘addicted to overspending’, warns Wes Streeting as he admits there will be significant job losses

The health secretary suggested hundreds more quangos could be in the firing line, warning that scrapping NHS England was ‘the beginning, not the end’

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