GPs Are Getting Concerned About Mental Health

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Hi guys, welcome to the channel. Thank you for joining me and thank you for your continued support. So today I've got an article about um a GPS who are concerned. Now this is um I think deliberately worded to make it look as though they're concerned about the rising benefits bill, but it's not really about that. Uh it's GP's concerned over DWP sending 194 pay pound payments to 900,000 households. So you can see the way they're phrasing that.

[00:00:27]It's making you think, "Oh, the GPS are concerned that the benefits bill is getting out of control." It's not really like that, and I'm going to read into it for you now. Um, GPS are concerned over the Department of Compensions payments being made to 1 million kids. The number of children receiving disability benefits in the UK is set to hit an historic milestone.

[00:00:48]Um, but fresh government figures show this total will exceed 1 million by next year. Joe Shalam of the Center for Social Justice warned these forecasts should ring alarm bells. Our researchers found that GPS increasingly concerned that young people are being pushed into medical and welfare pathways rather than their needs being met early through family, school, and community support.

[00:01:14]The danger is that more children every day are being put on a conveyor belt towards long-term dependency. That is bad for the taxpayer but far worse for the children whose potential is being written off before adulthood.

[00:01:26]Uh now this is specifically regarding to DA disability living allowance. Uh this is for children may help with extra costs of looking after a child who is under 16 and has difficulties walking or needs much more looking after than a child of the same age who does not have a disability. They will need to meet all the eligibility requirements and the DLA rate is between £30 and £19460 a week depending on the level of help the child needs.

[00:01:55]The problem is that the doctors aren't saying we're worried that so many people are going in and claiming benefits. What they're saying is they're saying that they are concerned that they are being put on welfare or pushed into medical pathways instead of having their needs met. And this is what I was talking about the other day when I was talking about the level of mental health services that are lacking these days.

[00:02:18]And I think this is a big part of it.

[00:02:20]You've got attacks on the send system in schools at the moment which is causing a huge um headache for a lot of parents.

[00:02:26]You've got um mental health support which is lacking in many areas of the country. And you know you've got uh GPS who really don't have a huge amount of choice. you know, they you know, they can't necessarily send these children to mental health services because there aren't any capacity. Um, you know, they can't do much about it except for um, you know, just diagnose them and and and that's pretty much it. And then, of course, the only recourse that a lot of parents have is to go for things like DA because they they don't have any way of actually getting their child supported in any other situation. So, I think it's it's bad. Um, I can understand why GPS are are increasingly concerned about it because it is increasingly concerning and you know it's not this fact that they're going to be put on a path pathway to dependency because I think there are lots of children out there who if they you know if they are currently receiving DA could potentially um be trained or be led down a pathway of work if they're able to do so. It's not to say that every single child is never going to work again. There could be there could be opportunities for certain children out there if they're able to do it. The problem is there isn't those opportunities for young children and there isn't the support there from services like mental health services to actually help them with their uh with the issues they may have be it physical or mental. I know that a lot of physical um physical conditions can be or do have help but even then it's a very much hit and miss depending on where you live in the country. But let me know what you think down in the comments section about this. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think that um children are being let down by a system which is um being decimated by cuts and uh staff leaving or do you think that actually it's the GP's fault for uh as many people would say overdiagnosing?

[00:04:23]Let me know what you think down in the comments section. Please do like, share and subscribe to push this channel out to more disabled people and I'll see you next time.