That's certainly an issue that has been ongoing since I came into this post five years or so back. I think there's a mixture in response to that, because clearly, a veteran's problem can be a problem that's experienced by anybody. It's not necessarily a veteran's problem, if I can put it that way.
There will be some issues around culture and maybe some specific issues around a veteran as a result of their service, whether that actually may be a physical or a mental injury. Within the NHS what we have done is we created, as part of our program, a series of armed forces networks within each of the 10 regions, again. These armed forces networks were led by local health authorities, and the networks brought together veterans. They brought together, more importantly, people within the health service who were also veterans themselves—many move on to new careers, etc—as well as reservists who work within the health services.
It was an opportunity to identify people who were within the system, who were veterans themselves or had a familiarity with the armed forces, and who were very willing and very keen to bring their skills and their knowledge to those networks.
Of course, by bringing that group of people together, it was a great way of informing other professionals and clinicians, particularly at that stage when we were creating the mental health teams. But also, with the other work that we've been doing more widely, it was a great way to actually inform and signpost and do those other things you would expect a network to do. That's on one level.
If you're also asking around the clinical skills and the social care skills in relation to veterans, again, it moves across to that. The number of reservists, NHS reservists, at one stage who were in Afghanistan, in Bastion, I think it was somewhere around 48% to 50% of the U.K. force out there. Again, it's the learning and the knowledge they take from their reservists' work within combat, within serving in Afghanistan, and their wide reservist experiences, that they are taking back into their own NHS hospitals, their trusts, their own medical environments, and obviously, that moves across to their colleagues as well.