World Mental Health Day is today, but the journey we face is long

Adam Saville
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COVER editor calls on the industry to put its money where its mouth is

Some pretty profound ideas came up at the Mad World Summit yesterday - and it is not often that we can say that about a conference. To commemorate World Mental Health Day, COVER received a deluge of press releases collating facts, figures and ideas related to psychological and emotional wellbeing within the workplace - many of these are useful and I have collated some of them in this article - however to borrow the words of Geoff McDonald, global advocate for Mental Health at Work, who closed the event yesterday… "How do we make mental health a strategic enabler, a language that is mo...

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