Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to check on the health of service personnel who were wounded or hurt in the Second World War and subsequent conflicts.

The Government continues to improve the health services available to veterans, investing over £22 million in providing enhanced mental health and prosthetic services. This includes the provision of nine prosthetic centres for veterans who have lost a limb as a result of their service, ten veterans’ mental health teams, a 24 hour helpline, an online counselling service and the funding of specialist post-traumatic stress disorder services through Combat Stress.

The Department and NHS England have increased communications with general practiontioners and others in the National Health Service, to highlight the health needs of veterans and the wider Armed Forces community.