Stop making poor people mentally ill | Letters

A jobcentre, accused by Paul Nicholson of imposing benefit sanctions which cause mental health problems for the NHS.The minds of ministers seem incapable of grasping that the prevention of ill health by the provision of adequate minimum incomes by the DWP is better than “soaring demand” for mental health services in the NHS, on humanitarian grounds alone, while the NHS would be relieved of £9bn poverty-related extra costs.