Mental health patients could get job coach visits

Job coaches could visit mental health patients when they are in hospital to help them get back to work, the government has said.

Trials of employment advisers giving CV and interview advice in hospitals produced "dramatic results", Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the BBC.

She said a wider roll out would form part of her drive to shrink the UK's annual disability and incapacity benefits bill.

But disability rights campaigners expressed concerns about the proposals, saying they have the potential to worsen someone's mental health.

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