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Huge price of failing to diagnose mental illness

Some years back I was hired to turn a health education document written in civil service-speak into a better approximation of English.

In essence it was setting out the then Scottish administration's health priorities.

Some way down the line, happily pre-publication, it came to our notice that, while dental health got a name check, mental health had accidentally been missed out entirely. Oh, how we didn't laugh.

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