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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Doctors overdiagnosing mental health conditions, Streeting says, amid expected benefit reforms

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has claimed doctors are "overdiagnosing" mental health conditions.

Speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Streeting said the welfare system had to be "sustainable", as he defended the government's forthcoming reforms aimed at cutting the benefits bill.

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