Another day, another way the government is spaffing taxpayers’ cash on diversity projects, despite cries from Labour that they’re cracking down on woke wasteful spending. Shock, they aren’t…
UK DOGE’s The Waste Files has discovered that the government website has opened a staggering £474,000 contract for “Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Learning” to the General Medical Council—the public body responsible for maintaining the official register of medical practitioners. For that you could:
UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”