Supporting Veterans' & Service Personnel with Mental Health Services
Dr Katy Briffa
Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist
MBChB, BSc (Hons) Neuroscience, MRCPsych,
CCT General Adult Psychiatry
Do you require a AFCS / WPS Report from a Consultant Psychiatrist?
Why choose us?
Dr Briffa has extensive experience of working as a civilian with veterans, service personnel and their families. She has worked with DCMH Plymouth and DCMH Leeming caring for service personnel in the Royal Navy, Army and RAF. Dr Briffa has been assisting veterans and service personnel with specialist evidence reporting on mental injuries, since 2015.
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Dr Briffa understands how huge a step it can be to ask for help and will always guide and support you to work at your pace. Working with trauma-related illness across military, health and social care settings is unfortunately an everyday occurrence, but encouragingly so is post-traumatic growth.
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Dr Briffa looks forward to welcoming you, as she has many of your colleagues.
What can we help you with?
Online assessment and reports for:
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Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) Application
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War Pension Scheme (WPS) Application
Online assessment with a Consultant Psychiatrist and a report to support your application.
What steps are involved?
Step 1: Assessment​
Book an online assessment with a view to establishing if a Consultant Psychiatrist AFCS or WPS report can be provided. This is a 90 minute assessment.
Book your 90 minute assessment:
You will receive a written opinion and recommendations, including a diagnosis where determined by Dr Briffa.
Step 2: Report
Following the online assessment and on confirmation of service attributable mental injury, Dr Briffa can prepare a separate chargeable report for the AFCS or WPS, which you can submit to support your claim.​