15 Times More ‘Disabled’ People than Doctors and Nurses in UK
Fresh figures from the Department for Work and Pensions reveals a staggering rise in disability claims. For the first time, a quarter of the British people say they have a disability with “substantial” and “long-term” effects on daily life. That’s 16.8 million people claiming to be disabled, with about 5.8 million of which say they have a mental health problem so severe it counts as a disability. The rise is sharpest among those of working age, with 24% saying they have a disability, up from 19% pre-Covid and 16% a decade ago – including about a million under 25. Tragic…
Seeing as there are 748,528 nurses on the permanent Nursing and Midwifery Council register and roughly 395,000 registered doctors in the UK, there are now 15 times as many disabled people as there are doctors and nurses in the UK. There are 227 times more disabled people than there are soldiers in the British Army…
To be fair to health secretary Streeting, he has hit out at the “overdiagnosis of mental health conditions” that leads to millions out of work and claiming benefits instead. Minesh Patel of charity Mind, unsurprisingly, offers the usual excuses, claiming that there are “very real reasons why mental health problems are increasing” and pointing to “seismic events like the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis” as the causes of soaring mental health problems. These figures put the moral panic from the left over Reeves’ modest welfare cuts into perspective…
