We've created the work programme so we have tailored support for people and now we're looking at these recommendations which say that if we get some early intervention for people when they first have health problems then we can really help people not fall out of the market in the first place.

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Those results are leading many doctors to say the number of people on these medicines, already some of the world's best-selling drugs, should be raised.

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Some of these local efforts, visiting drug experts say, have had considerable success in keeping people off drugs.

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Barker is right to say these cuts won't have come as a surprise to people working in the industry, some of whom feared they might be even more severe.

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