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very severe disease, multiple sclerosis for example, or dementia. and they don t need to be caught up in any kind of new initiatives, they need their lives made much less complicated. but there are a proportion of people who have become unwell and haven t made it back into work, and the statistics are quite shocking really, if you ve been out of work for six months then you ve only got about a one in five chance of ever making it back to work in the moment. but the reason i quite welcome this idea is not because i think there s going to be some sort of stern police force that s going to come round and take a stick and beat people back into work, but actually, i think these people need actually, i think these people need a lot of support but they re not currently getting from either the health service or the benefit system. health service or the benefit s stem. , ., , ., ., system. 0k. gemma, ust want to brin: ou system. 0k. gemma, ust want to bring you int system. 0k. gemma, ust wan
of the new statesman. he says people could benefit from this proposed system. there are proportion of people who have become unwell and haven t made it back have become unwell and haven t made it back into have become unwell and haven t made it back into work. the statistics are quite it back into work. the statistics are quite shocking. if you been out of work are quite shocking. if you been out of work for are quite shocking. if you been out of work for six months, then you ve only got of work for six months, then you ve only got about a one in five chance of ever only got about a one in five chance of ever making it back to work at the moment. the reason i quite welcome the moment. the reason i quite welcome this idea is not because i think welcome this idea is not because i think there s going to be a stern police force that s going to come around police force that s going to come around and take a stick and beat people around and take a stick and beat people back i
there are different ways of looking at the problem. one of them might be to get in support to help people as i was talking about, early intervention. but i think actually we need a little bit more of a intelligent look at what we re doing intelligent look at what we re doing in our society that striving such an epidemic, really, of mental health difficulties amongst the younger generation, i think they were hit very very hard by the pandemic, perhaps the least likely to run into any physical problems by the virus, but in terms of the restrictions on their life chances and there s a lot of work to be done there to understand what we can do to help. just, finally, gemma to you, but virtually we don t have time to go into the detail of what kind of piece of work that bill would be referring to there, but in a simple kind of top line, what would be your priority? tsir.
editor of the new statesman. alsojoining me is gemma byrne, she is the policy and campaign manager at mind, the mental health charity. thanks to you both forjoining us. if we could start with you, what do you make of this idea as the sick notes not being given out to gps but by other specialists instead? i ve not a by other specialists instead? i ve got a qualified by other specialists instead? i e got a qualified welcome for by other specialists instead? i j: got a qualified welcome for it. i would split sick notes into three broad categories. there is sort of the short term, perhaps somebody has has pneumonia or hernia repair, we should retain those in general practice, we can quickly sign them off for a short period of time, not a problem. then i think the other aspect to this is longer term sickness. there are unfortunately many people for whom work is just not a possibility, they may have
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