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UK government tells doctors to send patients with mental illness and painful injuries to the gym instead of signing them off work. (www.personneltoday.com)
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Nearly 11 million working-age adults in the UK are not employed. This includes a record 2.8 million signed off with long-term sickness, half of whom have depression or anxiety.

Maybe focus on getting the 8 million healthy unemployed people into work instead of kicking people off disability benefits?

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