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Good mental wellbeing isn't just about treatment, it's also about prevention
Ministers are to target depression in government policy shift. Schools, employers and GPs all have more of a role to play in mental-health care in the UK, ministers say.
Investment in recent years has focused on improving treatment, but the new 10-year strategy calls for more emphasis on prevention and early intervention.
In particular, it highlighted the importance of helping people back into work to aid recovery from mental illness and preventing it recurring.
Paul Farmer, head of Mind, the mental health charity, added: "Now that this benchmark has been set, it represents a turning point that no new government can turn back from.
"Good mental wellbeing isn't just about treatment, it's also about prevention.
"By focusing on the factors that take their toll on our wellbeing in the first place, we have a chance at achieving better mental health for everyone."
Read more at the BBC
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