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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Tom McDonald

If the UK wants growth, it must modernise mental health treatment

This year’s Budget forced the country to confront an uncomfortable truth: Britain’s welfare bill is rising at a pace the country can no longer sustain and it cannot keep absorbing.

And if you look at what’s driving that rise, one issue stands out - mental ill-health.

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