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Here is today's Northern Agenda: By ROB PARSONS - July 25 2022 Since March 2020 it's been two years where the nation has been plagued by uncertainty, with millions isolated from their friends and family thanks to the pandemic and services much harder to access.
But a new report has revealed that while mental health throughout England has been hit hard during the Covid-19 pandemic, the North both fared worse than elsewhere and has since recovered more slowly.
And according to the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) , the so-called 'parallel pandemic' of mental ill health in the North has cost the country a total of £2bn.
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