Combat Stress wins Soldiering On Award 2025
Combat Stress has won a prestigious Soldiering On Award for our innovative digital system, which has enabled veterans to track their recovery progress in real time, encouraging trust, collaboration, and confidence in treatment.
At last night’s ceremony in London, the team who developed our Quality and Effectiveness Data (QED) platform won the Healthcare and Rehabilitation Award, which honours those who have made a significant contribution to the physical or mental welfare of current or former service personnel.
Setting a new standard in trauma-informed care, our QED platform has revolutionised care delivery, with a 1,400% increase in veteran feedback submissions and thousands of hours saved in administrative time. More importantly, it puts veterans at the heart of their own healing journey, transforming how clinical decisions are made and ensuring treatment is tailored, transparent, and empowering. QED enables the impact of treatment to be visible and shared; last year 73% of veterans supported achieved recovery from PTSD, 81% of reported improved mental health and 97% reported a very good or good experience.
With this work already improving lives across the Combat Stress community, there is an aspiration to share this digital innovation to transform the entire veteran mental health sector, to drive better treatment outcomes for all veterans.
Our Clinical Director, Dr Naomi Wilson, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be recognised at this year’s Soldiering On Awards. We believe that we have addressed a challenge that all those across the sector face, as well as transformed our ability to track with veterans that their treatment is progressing in the right direction.
“Our QED system has also further enabled us to demonstrate our life-changing treatment outcomes, and continue to tackle the narrative that military PTSD is a life-long sentence.”
Our CEO, Chloe Mackay, said: “Congratulations to our specialist team for a much-deserved win. This system is an invaluable tool in enabling us to continue evolving and providing the best possible care for those who need it most.
“Our achievements last night highlight that Combat Stress is at the forefront of transforming mental health care for veterans.”
The Soldiering On Awards recognise outstanding achievement in the Armed Forces community, engaging the MOD, military charities and corporate partners to shine a light on those who make a difference. Find out more here: Soldiering On Awards.