When I asked the Minister for health to intervene to safeguard the unique and vital service for our PTSD-wounded veterans at Pathways in Bangor, she replied that the project was not eligible for grant aid, because the services that the project provides can be provided by the NHS. However, as Dr Steven Hughes, regimental medical officer of the second battalion of the parachute regiment in the Falkland Islands in 1982, responded, if conventional mental health services are so comprehensive, there would not be such a high rate of suicide among veterans, such a high prison population, or such large numbers of veterans sleeping rough.
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