A review into the rising demand for mental health, ADHD and autism services has been launched by the health secretary.

The independent review will look at rates of diagnosis, and the support offered to people.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the issue needs to be looked at through a "strictly clinical lens" after he claimed in March that there had been an "overdiagnosis" of mental health conditions, with "too many people being written off".

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