Comment: | Combat Stress (previously known as the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society) was founded after the First World War, and for over eighty years have been specialising in caring for men and women of all ranks from the Armed Services and Merchant Navy who suffer from injury of the mind. There is a regional network of welfare officers throughout the UK who visit patients at home or hospital, and who assist with claims and appeals for War Disablement Pensions. There are three short-stay treatment centres in Surrey, Shropshire and Ayrshire, with a total of ninety beds. Veterans come for two week periods of treatment, up to a maximum of six weeks in twelve months. |
