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A major push is needed to boost mental health research, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has told the BBC.
The Deputy Prime Minister said his party's next election manifesto would include a pledge to raise annual research spending in England by £50m by 2020.
Mr Clegg said the sector needed a breakthrough "comparable to penicillin".
Campaigners welcomed the Liberal Democrat leader's initiative.
Mr Clegg said: "My ambition is that we should understand mental health just as well as we understand physical health.
"I want us to be able to talk about, analyse and treat depression just as we treat diabetes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28689956
I'd aim higher than how we treat diabetes Nick, given some of the stories I read on this forum! 🙄
The Deputy Prime Minister said his party's next election manifesto would include a pledge to raise annual research spending in England by £50m by 2020.
Mr Clegg said the sector needed a breakthrough "comparable to penicillin".
Campaigners welcomed the Liberal Democrat leader's initiative.
Mr Clegg said: "My ambition is that we should understand mental health just as well as we understand physical health.
"I want us to be able to talk about, analyse and treat depression just as we treat diabetes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28689956
I'd aim higher than how we treat diabetes Nick, given some of the stories I read on this forum! 🙄