Most UK doctors 'cannot detect PTSD'

This may go a long way to explaining how the UK came out with a report on how low their military PTSD rate is.

Most doctors 'cannot detect PTSD'
07 September 2011

More than half of Britain's GPs are unaware of how to spot Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans despite official guidelines being available, a survey has found.

A ComRes poll commissioned by forces charity Combat Stress found that just 42 per cent of GPs were familiar with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines on diagnosing PTSD.

Nearly half, 49 per cent, said they were not familiar with the guidelines at all, according to the survey of 1,006 doctors.
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