Sharon Stevelink

The Office for Veterans’ Affairs Final Report: Health and Wellbeing Study of Serving and Ex-Serving UK Armed Forces Personnel: Phase 4. March 2024 can be found here. The report is the fourth to have been commissioned, and represents the culmination of 20 years of research, established to investigate the impact of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan on the health and wellbeing of UK Armed Forces personnel and has followed people up since 2004.

The King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) is the main source of independent high-quality data on the mental health and wellbeing of the UK Armed Forces, both serving and ex-serving, and their families and is the UK’s centre for research excellence. Its long and outstanding research has deeply and positively impacted the whole Armed Forces community. Since 2004, King’s has conducted a cohort study of more than 8000 UK military personnel, including those who have left Armed Forces.

The aim of Population Health Improvement UK is to find innovative and inclusive ways to improve the health of people, places and communities and reduce health inequalities through the development and evaluation of long-lasting and environmentally sustainable interventions. Population Mental Health is one of four initial research themes in the network.