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Today, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is announcing an independent review into rising demand for mental health, ADHD, and autism services. Amid soaring welfare costs and long waiting lists, the government says the system needs to be transformed. But with Streeting previously claiming that some mental health conditions are ‘overdiagnosed’, are the right problems being tackled?


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Guests:

  • Eleanor Hayward, health editor, The Times
  • Dr Tony Lloyd, counseling psychologist and former CEO of ADHD UK

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Edward Drummond, Taryn Siegel, Micaela Arneson.

Read more: Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’

Further listening: Is ADHD being over-diagnosed?

Clips: Sky News, Channel 4 News, Parliament, The Sun, BBC.

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