Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress Health Education England has made in ensuring that training is available so that there can be a specialist GP in every clinical commissioning group trained in the physical and mental health needs of armed forces veterans by summer 2015.

Health Education England (HEE) is working with partners to develop an updated e-Learning programme comprising of a pre-assessment; three e-learning sessions on ‘Caring for Veterans and their Families’, ‘Mental Health problems in Veterans’, and ‘Veterans with Severe or Long-term Injuries’; and a post-course assessment.

The e-Learning package is expected to be available in summer 2015, following which HEE will work with partners to promote the package across the National Health Service.