Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the steps taken by his Department to help veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Early in 2017, NHS England launched the Veterans Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS) and Complex Treatment Service (CTS). TILS provides in-reach services for those in transition, leading up to, and leaving the armed forces; services for veterans with complex presentation; general services for veterans. The purpose of the CTS, which builds on the launch of TILS, is to provide an enhanced service for veterans who have military attributable complex mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, which have not been resolved earlier in the care/support pathway.

Since October 2010, the Veterans Information Service has contacted all service leavers by email or post 12 months after discharge, to make them aware of mental health and other support available to them.

Further details can be found on the NHS website at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/military-healthcare/nhs-mental-health-services-for-veterans/