Only 590? - What Happens With Dubious Testing Methods!

The UK's fitness to work tests have probably tipped 590 people over the edge into committing suicide, experts have concluded.

Researchers from Oxford and Liverpool universities examined the state of mental health in all 149 local authorities around the country and compared it with trends in fitness to work reassessments.

And, they found, for every 10,000 people reassessed in each area under fitness to work tests, there were an extra six suicides compared to normal. On top of this, they found, there were 2,700 more cases of mental health problems reported, and an extra 7,020 prescriptions for antidepressants.

Over the country as a whole, this equates to 590 extra suicides, 279,000 extra cases of mental illness and 725,000 extra prescriptions between 2010 and 2013. AOL News.