Introduction .....................................................................................................................
40
System for
providing medical care for Service
Personnel ..............................................
40
Medical
care during the combat phase of
operations .....................................................
42
Planning
and preparing to provide medical
care ......................................................
42
Arrangements
for supporting mental
health ..............................................................
46
Delivery of
medical
care ...........................................................................................
47
Support for
injured Service Personnel and their
families ................................................
49
Establishing
a Military Managed Ward at Selly Oak
hospital .................................... 49
Improvements
at Headley
Court ...............................................................................
53
Handling
complex
cases ...........................................................................................
56
Support for
mental
health ................................................................................................
58
Research
into the physical and psychological health of
Operation TELIC
personnel ......................................................................................
58
Decompression .........................................................................................................
59
Variations
in the level of support after an operational
deployment ........................... 61
First
reports from the King’s Centre
study ................................................................
62
Reserves
Mental Health
Programme ........................................................................
63
Concerns
over mental health issues, late
2006 ........................................................
64
Trauma Risk
Management .......................................................................................
66
Further
findings from the King’s Centre study ..........................................................
66
Compensation .................................................................................................................
68
Support for
veterans .......................................................................................................
70
Mental
healthcare for
veterans .................................................................................
71
Community
mental health
pilots ................................................................................
72
Priority
treatment within the
NHS ..............................................................................
72
39