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Government pledge help for mental health during recession

By Richard Huzzey | Sun 8th March 2009 - 8:54 pm

I read on the BBC website that the government will commit new money to mental health provision – always a Cinderella service – in anticipation of more people needing help during the economic depression.

As Tory MP Andrew Lansley says in that report, this is great news. But he couldn’t help but add that the government was following Conservative policy in doing this – presumably referring to his speech on the issue in November 2008.

If we were to be equally petty, we might point to another politician who raised this a month before Lansley did. However, let’s just be pleased it’s happening.

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