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Rethinking mental health in the twenty-first century ? speech by Andy Burnham

31 January 2012

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, said: I recently shadowed a GP in Coventry and was surprised by the number of time he referred to IAPT. As he said, a huge step forward and an avenue that simply wasn't available only a few years ago. It came about because of Lord Richard Layard's work, who made both the social justice case, but also the economic case.

Posted on the Labour Party website on January 31, 2012. Link to the speech

Related publications
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard. Penguin books, 2011 (second edition) Details
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing for Public Policy, Paul Dolan, Richard Layard, and Robert Metcalfe (2011), Office of National Statistics, February

Related links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage
Happiness Researchwebpage

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