The Contact Group

The UK collaboration for military mental health policy, treatment and research

Contact Armed Forces

The UK collaboration for military mental health policy, treatment and research

The Contact Group (‘Contact’) is the collaboration of statutory and non-statutory (charity, academic and professional) organisations working to improve mental health support to the UK armed forces community including serving personnel, veterans and their families.

Core members include: Cobseo, Combat Stress, DHSC, Help for Heroes, Icarus, King’s College London, Ministry of Defence, NHS England, Northern Ireland Veterans’ Support Office, OVA, PTSD Resolution, Royal British Legion, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Scottish Government, Togetherall, Veteran Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (Scotland), Veterans NHS Wales, Walking With The Wounded and the Welsh Government.

Contact also has a number of associates, research associates and partners. See What We Are to find out more. Contact members, associates and partners are working collaboratively on a number of priority military mental health-related projects – see What We Do to find out more.

Contact Armed Forces

Photo credit: Combat Stress

Members

What we are

What We Are

Find out about Contact’s members, associates, research associates and partners

What we do

What We Do

Find out about Contact’s current priority military mental health projects

Support

Support

Find out about support for serving personnel, veterans, families, healthcare professionals and more.

Latest News

Veterans Mental Health Conference

Our colleagues at KCMHR are delighted to announce that tickets for the 2024 Veterans’ Mental Health Conference are now available to purchase here. The conference will be held at Bush House South East Wing, at the Strand Campus, of King’s College London on Tuesday...

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Welcome to our New Project Manager

Welcome to our New Project Manager

Joining our new Chair, Angus Kerr, we have a new Project Manager, Mark Woosey, coordinating the day to day activities of the group. Mark is a husband/dad, veteran, ageing sportsman and wannabe psychologist. Most of his career has been in the military – sponsored thro’...

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