UK Armed Forces Mental Health: Annual Summary & Trends Over Time, 2007/08 - 2019/20

Abstract: Mental Health care can be provided to UK Armed Forces personnel in the primary care setting by the patient’s own Medical Officer (similar to a General Practitioner (GP)) or by specialist mental health clinicians at MOD Specialist Mental Health Services; this includes community mental health services at MOD Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMH) for outpatient care or admissions to hospital as an in-patient. This bulletin provides statistical information on mental health in the UK Armed Forces and is the first in this series to present information on those seen for a mental health issue in primary care. The first section of this bulletin provides an overall summary of all mental health in the UK Armed Forces. The second section provides a detailed summary of those seen by MOD specialist mental health clinicians.