Making people better, not demonising them, will solve Britain’s sickness problem | Torsten Bell
Apr 07, 2024
Rightwingers would rather accuse the ill than admit the real issues with the NHS and the benefits systemIn policy making, as in life, the goal is to recognise when you have a problem, without getting it out of perspective. Otherwise nothing gets done.When it comes to people being too sick to work, we certainly have a problem. Only the UK in the G7 hasn’t seen its employment rate recover to pre-pandemic level, thanks to the rise to 2.7 million of those not working because of ill health, the longest sustained increase since the 1990s. Continue reading...
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