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”
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