Outcome area
Health
All Veterans and their families enjoy a state of positive physical and mental health and wellbeing, enabling them to contribute to and benefit from wider society.
We fund projects to improve:
- Transition support with sufficient time to plan
- Understanding and awareness of veterans’ specific health needs and clinical priorities; mental health needs, addictions and treatment needs
- Collaboration and coordination across the NHS, charities and the Armed Forces throughout the UK for Faster ‘triage’ of veteran health and wellbeing issues
- Awareness of veteran health and wellbeing support pathways
- Recognition of veterans at the point of presentation
- Earlier identification of veterans at risk of health and mental health problems
- Quality of life support in relation to conditions attributable to service in the Armed Forces
- Health and wellbeing understanding and clear guidance and support for families
- ‘Intelligent’ network of health and wellbeing provision for veterans and families
- Data recording, linkage and sharing to avoid need to repeat history to health care professionals; to allow for health trend analysis; and to identify where veterans may have specific needs compared to the general population.
We do this to ensure that:
- Ex Service personnel receive appropriate mental health care that recognises factors attendant to service in the Armed Forces.
- There exists an appropriately resourced and easily accessible mental health research programme to build organisations’ capacity to deliver evidence-based prevention and rehabilitation.
- Ex Service personnel are able to access appropriate (veteran aware) physical care with treatment and support to the optimum standard available.
- A health and social care network exists that meets veterans and families needs, particularly on addictive behaviours, domestic violence, abuse, resilience, loneliness & isolation.
- A consistent and high level provision of care and support is available, in-service to post-service, especially in relation to long term conditions attributable to service.
- There is appropriate compensation and quality of life support whenever applicable.
