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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rhiannon James

Young people ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental health conditions, Hunt says

Young people are being overdiagnosed with mental health conditions, a former cabinet minster has suggested.

Ex-health secretary Jeremy Hunt backed calls to radically reform the Send system and argued society has “lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process”, in the foreword of a Policy Exchange report.

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