In today’s Spring Statement Labour are having to make cuts – and welfare has been hit hard. Last week the health secretary Wes Streeting said that too many people were being written off work due to overdiagnosis. A statement which received considerable backlash.
But what do we really mean by overdiagnosis? And how is it affecting public health?
Hannah Barnes is joined by neurologist and author Suzanne O’Sullivan about her increasing fears of overdiagnosis and the impact it can have on both physical and mental health; what she thinks about those comments from Wes Streeting (and the reaction to them); and the relationship between public policy and health.
This conversation was recorded in partnership with the Cambridge Literary Festival.
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