It is very important for the farming and veterinary communities to feel that their circumstances are understood by NHS staff when seeking to access, or receiving, support (otherwise this may work against help-seeking behaviours). Charities with specialist-knowledge can gain people’s trust from a position of credibility, so it makes sense to engage them to boost NHS staff understanding and/or to develop occupationally specific mental health initiatives, to provide a model for the NHS to improve support for farming and veterinary mental health. We recommend that DHSC and DEFRA identify farming and veterinary mental health as high priorities for action and by September 2023, develop a work programme with NHS England, public health and agricultural and veterinary charities to identify measures and targets to improve mental health outcomes for these occupational groups; and that DHSC mandate Health Education England to work with agricultural and veterinary charities to develop a training programme for rural NHS providers and staff to be launched by Autumn 2023, about these occupational groups’ mental health needs to improve their care. (Paragraph 136) 80 Rural Mental Health