Reports

The Armed Forces Community (AFC) Healthcare navigation Project tested the role of an AFC Healthcare Navigator in Primary Care as a means of improving healthcare outcomes for the AFC. Whilst delivering care navigation, the project simultaneously intended to understand the experiences of the AFC and deliver training and awareness across Primary Care.

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The research, led by the University of Salford and supported by the University of York, involved 120 interviews with ex-Service personnel and found the need for greater understanding of veterans’ complex needs and suggests that sanctions are not the answer.

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This graphic novel contains four separate ‘stories’ collected for the Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers project, which represents the first substantive qualitative research in the UK to focus specifcally on the experiences of veterans within the social security benefts system.

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This Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) summary presents answers to two questions: 1. How do families of Service personnel experience transition? 2. How can insights from research with families, coupled with an in-depth understanding of human behaviour, be used to improve the transition process?

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Focus On: Armed Forces Charities - Sector Trends explores the number of armed forces charities operating, opening, closing and merging between 2012 and 2018. It also provides an overview of the sector’s topography and financial trends during this period.

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Report on the pilot project in Wiltshire delivering online support for carers in the Armed Forces Community caring for those with mental health problems.

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Shared Intelligence and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) were commissioned to carry out research on how to improve the delivery of organisational pledges made under the covenant.

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Although most veterans manage the transition from the armed forces to civilian life without experiencing an enduring or severe psychological disorder, a sub-group of ex-service personnel encounter enduring adverse mental health.

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How can organisations more effectively implement the Armed Forces Covenant across the UK in support of everyone in the Armed Forces Community?

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