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Tristram Hunt: 'Financial cuts to NHS have had a severe impact on mental health treatment'

7 July 2014

Ultimately the biggest task remains ensuring our creaking health service is more responsive to the needs of mental health outpatients. And here there may be cause for cautious optimism. Because new research by Professors Richard Layard and David Clark, from the London School of Economics, has suggested that treating mental health through the most effective cognitive behaviour therapies could bring about enormous savings to the public purse when compared to some existing treatments, such as medication. And the knock-on boost to the economy through better health could be enormous.

This article was published in The Stoke Sentinel on July 7, 2014
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Related Publications
Thrive: the Power of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, Richard Layard and David M Clark, Penguin, July 2014
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Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
David Clark webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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