Mental Health 'worse' in North after pandemic

Mental health in the North was more badly affected by the pandemic than elsewhere in England, a new report has found.

Experts have estimated that the mental health crisis in the North has cost the UK economy £2 billion, on top of the losses caused by Covid-19.

A report by the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) said the findings are more evidence that the pandemic had an uneven affect of different regions.

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A conservative estimate of the decline in mental health in the North during the two years of the pandemic found that it cost the UK £2 billion in lost economic productivity.

Report co-author Clare Bambra, professor of public health at Newcastle University, said: "These findings reiterate that the pandemic has been very unequal.

"People in our most deprived communities have suffered most, in terms of death rates, dying younger and in ongoing ill health such as long Covid.

"These health inequalities reflect long-term inequalities in the social determinants of health, how we live, work and age."

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