England’s pioneering mental-health programme hits a ceiling
Can it break through?
FIFTEEN YEARS ago Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics, put together a pitch. “We now have evidence-based psychological therapies,” he noted. But they were rarely available on the National Health Service. The result was lost lives and, he argued with an eye on the Treasury, lost money, since people with poor mental health were often jobless. A new branch of the health service was needed.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Breaking through”
Britain October 2nd 2021
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- England’s pioneering mental-health programme hits a ceiling
- Professors and students seek to widen the appeal of classics
- In Britain, young women got more work during the pandemic
- Andy Burnham wants to help rescue the Tories’ signature policy
- Sir Keir Starmer is sailing the Labour Party in the right direction
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