Support for Veterans and the Armed Forces community: report 2018
Annual report about the work we are doing to respond to the recommendations made in the Scottish Veterans Commissioner’s reports.
Scottish Veterans Commissioner’s Report on Health and Wellbeing
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all UK Armed Forces veterans living in Scotland are able to access the best possible standard of safe, effective and person-centred healthcare and has welcomed the valuable work of the Veterans Commissioner in his 2018 report “Veterans Health and Wellbeing: a distinctive Scottish Approach [8] ”.
We have accepted the recommendations contained within the report and will be taking forward work over the next year to implement them. Specifically, the Commissioner recommended that we should adopt a Scottish approach to the healthcare needs of veterans, and we have committed to working with stakeholders and veterans champions in NHS Boards to establish this. We will also focus efforts on refreshing the structure and remit of the Armed Forces and Veterans Joint Health Group. A detailed breakdown of progress against each of the Commissioner’s recommendations contained within the Health and Wellbeing report is provided as an annex.
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