Kevin Woods Director General Health

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Kevin WoodsDirector General Health Chief
Executive NHS Scotland
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We are the not dead.
Neither
happy and proud
with a bar-code of
medals across the heart
nor laid in a box and draped in a flag,
we
wander this no mans land instead,
creatures of a different
stripe the awkward, unwanted, unlovable type
haunted with fears and guilt, wounded in spirit
and mind. So what shall we do with the not dead
and all of his kinds? The Not Dead by Simon
Armitage
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SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS PAPER

• Published July 2008 in tandem with UK Government
  paper The Nations Commitment Cross-Government
  Support to our Armed Forces, their Families and
  Veterans also published July 2008.
• Health
• Housing
• Education
• Skills
• Transport
• Support to Families
• Report to FM and PM early Autumn 2009
• Cabinet Office Coordination

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VETERANS FUNDING

• Partnership with Veterans Scotland
• 240,000 over 3 years
• 2009/10 Beneficiaries
• Gordon Highlanders Museum
• Officer Association
• Poppy Scotland
• Veterans Scotland
• Combat Stress including Hollybush House
• Erskine
• Cadet Training Centre Inverness
• Veterans Guide launched today

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SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT PAPERPROGRESS
REPORT

• Housing HARI/2009 published 23/02/09
• Adapted housing
• Raises awareness of veterans needs, and
  seriously injured personnel.
• Grant for mandatory adaptations test of
  resources abolished Automatic award of 80 or up
  to 100 grant for adaptations
• Priority access to affordable housing (LIFT)
• Open market shared equity
• New supply shared equity scheme
• Local connection consultation on changing
  homeless legislation to include armed forces
  employment as a valid connection
• MOD void property as temporary accommodation

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SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT PAPERPROGRESS
REPORT

• Health
• Priority treatment all veterans with service
  related conditions. ½ m leaflets distributed
• Waiting lists retention of place
• Prosthetic limb provision state of the art
  services, focussed on NHS Lothian
• Mental Health
• Military and Civilian Partnership Awards Care
  of Veterans 2009 Awards

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MENTAL HEALTH POLICY IN SCOTLAND

• Modern Legislation Principles Participation /
  Equity / Respect / Reciprocity
• Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland
• A new action plan for mental health improvement
• Challenging stigma
• A national Delivery Plan for mental health
• 5 HEAT targets
• Anti Depressant use
• Reduced readmissions
• Reduced suicides
• Dementia
• CAMHS
• Key Areas
• Expanding Psychological therapies (e.g. CBT)
• Crisis intervention

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Mental Health Services for Veterans

• Partnership with Combat Stress Announced 10 May
  2009
• 1.2 m p.a. to support Hollybush Houses role as
  a provider of Specialist mental health services
• 560,000 over 3 years for 2 community outreach
  teams (East and West)
• Veterans First Point (NHS Lothian Veterans Pilot)
• 930,000 over 3 years SG 640k
• LHB
  220k
• MOD 70k
  
• Opened on 16 March 2009
• One Stop Shop Run by Veterans for Veterans
• Research with Robert Gordons University to
  assess health needs

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• We are the not dead.
• In battle, life would not say goodbye to us.
• And crack-shot snipers seemed to turn a
• blind eye to us.
• And even though guns and grenades let fly
• at us we somehow survived.
• The Not Dead by Simon Armitage