Veterans: Health Services

(asked on 21st February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of adequacy of the provision of health services for veterans in each local authority in the UK.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 2nd March 2020

In England, individual local authorities are responsible for completing local health needs assessments. Guidance has been provided that explains how local authorities should consider veterans, this includes delivering on the armed forces covenant.

The Department, NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will consider options for updating this guidance.

In addition, the NHS England and NHS Improvement have commissioned central needs assessments on veteran mental health services, musculoskeletal rehabilitation services, prosthetics and veterans’ mental health needs in the criminal justice system. There is also a planned national engagement on veteran families’ health needs to start in March 2020.

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