Mental Health Services: Veterans
(asked on 31st October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of armed forces veterans in inpatient and outpatient mental healthcare in England.
The table below shows the number of ex-British Armed Forces veterans in contact with mental health services plus the number of ex-British Armed Forces veterans in a mental health hospital at the end of July 2017 in England only. The figure in row one includes those accessing service as outpatients and in the community.
Ex-British Armed Forces veterans in contact with mental health services at the end of July 2017 | 4,644 |
Ex-British Armed Forces veterans in mental health hospitals at the end of July 2017 | 57 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS)
The MHSDS has identified ex-British Armed Forces veteran’s status from 2016/17.