As a member of the West Midlands Veterans Mental Health Network, BSMHFT is part of an initiative which supports widening veterans’ care across the region. We aim to be a Trust which provides the best possible care for all of our service users. It is essential that those who have previously served in the military are treated with the care, respect and dignity they deserve, which is why we have developed our ‘Veterans for Veterans' principle.
‘Veterans for Veterans’ supports the idea that staff within our Trust who are veterans, related to veterans or experts in veterans care will be involved in improving veterans mental health. This can be directly by supporting veteran service users with advice, understanding, care and other aspects, or by supporting the Trust in making the right decisions and taking the right actions to help our veterans.
At the heart of our veterans, we have a special interest group consisting of people from a range of departments and military experience all driving to put veterans mental health more widely on the map and striving for improvement. Please see below to find out more about the members of our special interest group: