Here at the Abingdon Surgery we are now Armed Forces Veteran Friendly. This means that we have a dedicated clinician who has a specialist knowledge of military related health conditions and veteran specific health services.
If you are ex-forces, please let your GP know to help ensure you are getting the best possible care.
What is a veteran?
A veteran is anyone who has served for at least one day in the Armed Forces, whether as a regular or reservist. It means the same as ‘ex service personnel’ or ‘ex-forces’, although not all veterans know the term or choose to associate with the term ‘veteran’. Younger veterans might refer to themselves as ‘ex-forces’, in the belief that a veteran is someone who fought in the Second World War.
What do we offer?
We now offer a personalised care programme for ex-forces with a long term physical, mental or neurological health condition or disability.
NHS England and NHS Improvement, together with the Ministry of Defence, have published the Personalised care for veterans in England, a guide for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities, which sets out a personalised care approach for those veterans who have a long term physical, mental or neurological health condition or disability.