Veterans: Mental Health Services
(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many care coordinators are currently employed as part of Op COURAGE.
The ambition is that each Op COURAGE service performs the role of care coordinators for the patients that require this element of support but how services deliver this requirement is for local determination.
NHS England and NHS Improvement do not hold data of the number of care co-ordinators currently employed as part of Op COURAGE. The care co-ordination role is delivered in a variety of ways to meet the needs of veterans within the service and can be performed across more than one role rather than specific post holders.
The table below shows the average wait time for services within Op COURAGE after the first contact by a person. Data for January 2022 is not yet available.
| Transition, Intervention and Liaison veterans' mental health service | Community Therapeutic Services | High Intensity Services |
November 2021 | 10 days | 12 working days | 4 days |
December 2021 | 9 days | 14 working days | 3 days |
The Government is investing an additional £2.7 million into the Op COURAGE service which will be used to provide additional capacity within the service. This increase in capacity will assist in reducing the time veterans wait to be seen.