Mental Health Services: Veterans

(asked on 21st October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of veterans that have received mental health support in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 3rd November 2021

Veterans in England can access mental health support through Operation Courage Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS), the veteran’s specialist mental health service and the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. The data for veterans accessing TILS and IAPT in each of the last five years is shown in the following table.

Financial year

Number of TILS assessments

Total number in receipt of TILS/ IAPT treatment

2017/2018

1,649

17,271

2018/2019

2,120

18,033

2019/2020

2,569

18,375

2020/2021

2,391

10,793

April to August 2021

1,052

4,294

It should be noted that IAPT data reports veterans who received treatment and declared their veteran status.

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