Defence Medical Services

(asked on 6th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel and their families received an initial assessment by the Defence Medical Services in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 9th December 2021

All Armed Forces candidates are medically assessed to determine suitability for service entry. Once in service, personnel receive primary healthcare from the Defence Medical Services.

The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) is the source of electronic, integrated healthcare records for the Armed Forces and entitled military dependants. Searches of DMICP Read codes are used to produce various statistical data about Defence healthcare. However, DMICP searches cannot determine when all individuals had an 'initial assessment' in a Defence Primary Care pathway. Consequently, the information required to answer the question is not held in the format requested.

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