Mental health: Firms ask PM to deliver on pledge

[Northerner]

Some of Britain's biggest employers are pressing the government to honour a promise to give mental health the same status as physical health at work.

Royal Mail and WH Smith are among the companies asking the PM to follow through on her manifesto pledge to update health and safety legislation.

That would mean employers would have to provide appropriate training for staff to deal with mental ill-health.

About one in six of people at work have symptoms of a mental health condition.

A government-commissioned review put the cost of those conditions, such as depression, anxiety or stress, to the economy at between £74bn and £99bn a year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46251391

 

[mikeyB]

A manifesto pledge kicked into the long grass, as usual. I think the governing party is too busy fighting among themselves to think about stuff like this, though some of them might need to avail themselves of such a service.

 

[Northerner]

A manifesto pledge kicked into the long grass, as usual. I think the governing party is too busy fighting among themselves to think about stuff like this, though some of them might need to avail themselves of such a service.

For many years we have heard announcements and commitments that simply never see the light of day. The betting machine thing only got brought forward because there was a big hoo-haa about it - if something doesn't catch the press attention quite so much nothing happens. Good example is the government promised to abolish letting agency fees a couple of years ago - when I was considering moving I thought about renting for a few months, and the legislation was supposed to be imminent which would have saved me a considerable amount of money on a short-term rental, but I've now been moved in 6 months and there's still no sign of it 🙄 Certainly, as far as mental health is concerned we've had announcement after announcement about bringing parity with physical health, but as far as I can see we have not progressed one iota, and are probably even worse now than a couple of years ago.

As for Brexit, I don't personally see why the country should accept a government putting us in a worse position than we currently are, there is absolutely no logic in that And whilst I'm on the topic, what has bugged me during this whole renegotiation process - and before, during the Referendum campaign - no-one has sought to educate the public about the GOOD things about being in the EU, and the GOOD things about immigration etc.

 

[mikeyB]

Equally, nobody has explained the good things about leaving the EU. Certainly not the economic benefits. They can’t, because there aren’t any.