11th Report - Mental Health and the Armed Forces, Part One: The Scale of mental health issues
- HC No.
- HC 813
- Published
- 25 Jul 2018
- Items
- 0
- Response
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Select Committee · Defence Committee
Armed forces and veterans mental health inquiry
Status: Closed
Opened: 31 Jan 2018
Closed: 31 Jan 2018
1 report
Inquiry scope
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
Oral evidence sessions
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