Committees

Armed forces and veterans mental health inquiry

Inquiry

The Committee examined the extent of mental health issues across both serving armed forces personnel and veterans and addressed the following questions:

  • To what extent do current statistics accurately reflect the level of mental health issues in serving armed forces personnel and veterans, including PTSD?
  • What are the challenges to accurately assessing the extent of mental health issues in serving armed forces personnel and veterans and how could government improve its understanding of those issues?
  • How does the level of mental health issues, services and outcomes in serving armed forces personnel and veterans:
    - compare both to the actual level in the general population and to public perceptions of mental health issues in armed forces personnel and veterans?
    - vary between different groups of serving and former personnel, including reservists, those who have been deployed on operations and early leavers?
    - vary regionally across the UK and across the devolved administrations?
  • What proportion of mental health issues in veterans is attributable to service in the Armed Forces and how well is this measured and understood?
  • To what extent does the military environment for serving armed forces personnel mitigate against the development of mental health issues?

Reports, special reports and government responses

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11th Report - Mental Health and the Armed Forces, Part One: The Scale of mental health issues
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Response to this report
12th Special Report - Mental health and the Armed Forces, Part One: The Scale of mental health issues: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report
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12th Special Report - Mental health and the Armed Forces, Part One: The Scale of mental health issues: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report
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Oral evidence transcripts

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26 June 2018
Inquiry Armed forces and veterans mental health inquiry
Witnesses Rt Hon Tobias Ellwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for Defence People and Veterans, Lieutenant General Martin Bricknell, Surgeon General, Ministry of Defence, Jackie Doyle-Price MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities, Kate Davies, OBE, Director of Health & Justice, Armed Forces and Sexual Assault Services Commissioning, NHS England
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Oral Evidence
24 April 2018
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Witnesses Professor Cherie Armour, Associate Dean (Research and Impact), Ulster University, Dr Beverly Bergman, University of Glasgow, Dr Lucy Abraham, Clinical Psychologist, Veterans First Point Scotland, Dr Neil Kitchiner, Director and Consultant Clinical lead, Veterans NHS WalesDr Walter Busuttil, Director of Medical Services, Combat Stress, Rod Eldridge, Clinical lead, Walking with the Wounded, Karen Mead, Head of Psychological Wellbeing, Help for Heroes
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27 March 2018
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Witnesses Sir Simon Wessely, Director, King's Centre for Military Health Research, King's College London, Professor Nicola Fear, Director, King's Centre for Military Health Research, King's College London, Matt Fossey, Director, Veterans and Families Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Professor Susan Klein, Professor of Health and Social Care, Veterans and Families Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Written evidence

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Walking With the Wounded (VMH0050)
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Help for Heroes (VMH0049)
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Queen's University Belfast (VMH0048)
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Contact us

  • Email: defcom@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 3113/6168 (general enquiries) | 020 7219 2996 (media enquiries)
  • Address: Defence Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA