Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how health care professionals assess whether a veteran's illness or condition is related to service in the armed forces and therefore eligible for priority NHS treatment; and if he will make a statement.

It is for clinicians to determine whether it is likely that a condition is related to service via clinical assessment and patient disclosure. Veterans accessing the nine National Health Service disablement centres and the veteran’s prosthetic panel will be asked to provide supporting information that the injury is service related.