Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward proposals to introduce an annual mental health assessment for veterans for three years following discharge.

Currently, the Government has no plans to introduce an annual mental health assessment for veterans three years after discharge.

In England, veterans are not only able to access mainstream National Health Service provided mental health services, they have access to several bespoke services NHS England and NHS Improvement have put in place. This includes the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service which offers an in-reach mental health service for those in transition, leading up to, and leaving the Armed Forces

This service is in addition to the Complex Treatment Service and the forthcoming Veterans’ Mental Health High Intensity Service which will provide crisis care and therapeutic inpatient support for those who need urgent and emergency care.