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Mental Health Services: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand the availability of veteran-specific mental health services in (a) rural and (b) deprived areas.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
29 Jan 2025
Answer
4 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand the availability of veteran-specific mental health services in (a) rural and (b) deprived areas.

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England commissions Op COURAGE, the integrated mental health and wellbeing service, which allows veterans to make self-referrals.The service has been designed to support veterans from all areas, including rural and deprived areas, and is delivered fro...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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