Veterans: Mental Illness

(asked on 30th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the incidence of mental health problems among former armed forces personnel; and how much funding they have allocated to assist with mental health provision for such people.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 10th July 2020

Veteran mental health needs are very often no different to those of the general population. Data in England has shown that most patients suffer from common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety and readily make use of the mainstream mental health services provided throughout the United Kingdom.

For veterans that do need specialist support, the Government is fully committed to providing high quality evidence-based services. The National Health Service in England has set up two dedicated veterans’ mental health services, the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service and the Complex Treatment Services. These services benefit from over £12 million per year investment. The forthcoming Veterans’ Mental Health High Intensity Service will see even more investment and will provide crisis care and therapeutic inpatient support for those who need urgent and emergency care.

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