Mental health over-diagnosis costs taxpayers £16billion a year, damning report reveals

Mental health over-diagnosis costs taxpayers £16billion a year, damning report reveals

A new report has suggested overdiagnosis of mental health conditions costs British taxpayers about £16billion a year

Mental health overdiagnosis ‘costs £16bn a year’

The overdiagnosis of mental health illness in young people costs the UK around £16bn a year, a new report has suggested, with former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt claiming policies he introduced around Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) required “stretching questions”.  Research by the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange has found that the overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence has contributed to a rise of £4.5bn in SEND s…