A healthy workforce means a healthy economy. Britain can’t afford to be so ill

A healthy workforce means a healthy economy. Britain can’t afford to be so ill | Devi Sridhar The appointment of the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt as chancellor is particularly timely, given one of the largest problems facing the British economy: the growing number of working-age adults who are “economically inactive” – meaning they are neither employed nor looking for work – because they struggling with long-term sickness. Long-term sickness is being driven by two key factors: long Covid and people being signed off sick until they can access NHS care. The Guardian

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