A letter from Minister for Defence People and Families, Alistair Carns MP, has revealed that psychiatric conditions have consistently been the leading cause of new Army applicants being medically rejected between 2020 and 2024.
In a letter addressed to Derek Twigg MP, Carns provided a breakdown of the most frequent medical reasons for disqualification, confirming that “psychiatry (mental health)” accounted for more than half of all medical refusals in both 2020 and 2024, and remained the leading cause in each intervening year.
According to figures provided by the Directorate of Army Recruiting:
- In 2020 and 2024, psychiatry was responsible for 54% of medical disqualifications;
- In 2021, 52%;
- In 2022, 42%;
- In 2023, 45%.
Musculoskeletal issues were the second most common reason each year, ranging from 11% to 15%. Other recurring causes included respiratory conditions, neurological and dermatological issues, and problems relating to eyesight.
The data also revealed that gastrointestinal, ENT (ear, nose and throat), cardiovascular, renal/urological, and reproductive conditions appeared consistently, albeit at significantly lower levels. In all five years, dental issues were either not present or accounted for 1% or less of medical rejections.
The minister noted that the figures were drawn from the Army’s recruitment directorate and would be placed in the House of Commons Library for reference.
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No wonder people are afraid to come forward with mental health help
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It is a good job this wasn’t a consideration in 1976.
I read recently that most squaddies eventually getting diagnosed with PTSD joined with it. I met very few who “always wanted to be a soldier”.
And they can’t fill support roles?
I don’t think this should be a disqualifier alone. Plenty of jobs can still be done. Refueling aircraft, training admin, base admin, warehouse work. A lot of people have mental health issues BECAUSE they are idle. Give them a purpose.
Uh… you do understand that even support roles are required to you know… Soldier?
Every mans a rifleman and all that? Do I need to remind you that part of your minimum training is an annual marksmanship test which involves firing live ammunition? And you are suggesting that we should be giving people with mental health issues a rifle and live ammunition?
Does that apply to the non sharp end trades in the RN and RAF too, Dern?
I see your point re the Army, not decided with the other two. Do such marksmanship tests take place with those services?
I believe that even the RAF requires you to be able to shoot in order to pass out of initial training, which requires giving you live ammunition and a rifle at a very early stage of your career.
Can you guarentee that your rear “non-sharp end” RAF soldier will never have to stag on a gate with a loaded rifle at RAF Brize? (They do regularly).
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Any of this to do with over sensitive safe place needing people or is it deranged nutters. Be helpful to know the rough list of mental conditions. It it sign of the times ie people to sensitive to join or people too violent etc to join?.
Doesn’t seem to be either. More like the rejections are based on out of date rules and too restrictive. People on the British army subreddit saying they’ve been rejected for having anxiety years ago.
For goodness sake mental health conditions are endemic, no wonder they are struggling to recruit if they are excluded due to mental health issues.
Mental health issues have never been an exclusion to high stress traumatic jobs.If you take one of the most high stress and traumatic roles, take a role that deals with daily trauma.. your jobbing Accident and Emergency nurse ( every day job involves, dead children, murder victims, people in bits, assaults etc), the simple reality is your average jobbing AE nurse is a walking mental health disease, with 47.4% of ED nursing staff suffering severe stress related disease, 23.1% anxiety disorders and 14.1% depression disorders….so essentially the army navy and airforce..probably could not recruit the majority of ED nurses..due to mental illness…
On the other hand, how many of those high stress traumatic roles include routine access to fire arms and live ammunition? I know at least two friends who wanted to join but where rejected on MH grounds who had a history of suicide attempts.
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Mental illness is the also the main cause of the steep rise in people out of work and claiming benefits. There is, or has been, something weird going on with the psyche of the nation, a sort of cultural delusion, an infection which has affected large numbers of people. But there are signs of recovery e.g. the recent decision on Scunthorpe steelworks and the Supreme court ruling on transgender – planet normal is making a comeback. GB is coming to it senses.
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Sums it up, and they say nobody wants to join – they do, but the army don’t want them becasue they’ve been open with their mental health (isn’t that preferable?) it’s a put up and shut up mentality.