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People with mental health challenges should not be written off, as they deliver significantly more benefits than costs for the global economy. People with mental health problems – working in a wide range of industries, from construction to entertainment – made an estimated £226 billion gross-value-added contribution to UK GDP in 2015. To put this into perspective, without them, the economy would shrink by 12.1%.¹³

Businesses with developed well-being programmes have shown that it is possible to reduce the costs associated with staff mental health problems. If just 10% of the costs were mitigated, Oxford Economics calculate the UK economy could be £3.3 billion larger than it otherwise would be in 2030 (0.1% of forecasted GDP that year).¹⁴