It is estimated that half of people on community orders have at least one mental health problem, yet fewer than one per cent of community orders contain a requirement for mental health treatment. The report looks at the requirement and examines barriers to its use.
09 January 2008
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 Briefing Paper 30
This briefing paper shows that patients at the special hospital gained in skills and confidence after participating in a business run for and by patients.
11 January 2006
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 Facts and figures on current provision
Forensic mental health services provide care for people who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and have been transferred to secure NHS services. This factfile bring together figures from many sources about forensic mental health services.
10 September 2007
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 Experiences of prison mental health care
From the Inside is based on interviews with 98 prisoners in five West Midlands prisons. It finds that mental ill health is not the exception but the rule. It sets out what prisoners themselves say they need to improve their mental health.
25 June 2008
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 Developing a primary care mental health service in prisons
Prisoners with common mental health conditions frequently go untreated in prisons. Government policy is that prisoners should receive health care that is ‘equivalent’ to that which they would get outside. This paper looks at ways in which this could be achieved and makes policy recommendations.
22 November 2007
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 A perspective from primary care
This paper gives an overview of the health and social care and the physical and mental health needs of offenders upon release from prison. It looks at what development work is being undertaken or planned in this area, the national policy drivers in wider health care which may significantly relate to and affect prisoners, how prisoners are enabled to access primary care services and what organisational issues affect this access.
18 January 2008
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 The mental health implications of Imprisonment for Public Protection
This report finds that prisoners serving IPP sentences are much more likely than other prisoners to have mental health problems. It looks at the sentencing process, what information is given to prisoners and the courses they can do as well as the prisoners' mental health needs and the impact of mental ill health on the IPP process. It makes recommendations for health and criminal justice services.
18 September 2008
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 A Review
This policy paper examines London’s prisons and makes recommendations for improvement and ways that the primary care trusts and the prisons can work together to make more progress.
29 March 2006
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 Briefing Paper 32
The quality of mental health care available in our prisons is frequently poor. This briefing paper provides an overview of the mental health care available in prisons. It covers prison inreach teams work, alternatives to prison and care after release. It also makes recommendations for improvements.
25 June 2007
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 Continuity of care for people leaving prison
Continuity of care is vital in all areas of health care. For released prisoners with mental health problems it is especially important to help them get their lives back on track on the outside.
On the Outside finds that many released prisoners quickly lose touch with the services that are supposed to support them. Many prisoners do not know where they will be living on release. Some end up on relatives' sofas. Others go to hostels where they fear getting back into drug habits, or they end up on the streets.
02 December 2008
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This briefing looks at the role of the police in relation to mental health and makes recommendations for development. It calls on the NHS to manage health care in police custody and to take a more active role in diverting people with mental health problems to the services they need.
02 September 2008
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Service user involvement in health care research is now firmly established in the NHS but few attempts have been made to find out about prisoners' experiences of mental health care in prison or to encourage their involvement in this research. This review looks at how models of service user involvement in health research could be applied in prisons.
16 December 2008
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Offending behaviour programmes (OBPs) aim to change the way offenders think in order to change their offending behaviour.
This review finds that many programmes are poorly adapted to the needs of people with mental health problems and that they fail to address the most common causes of offending, such as lack of a home and lack of a job. The review calls for programmes to be made more accessible to prisoners with mental health problems and relevant to people's lives.
12 November 2008
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 Spending on Prison Mental Health Care
Short-changed, produced together with Lincoln University, shows that prison inreach teams get £300 in funding for every prisoner in England. This is only about one-third of what they need to offer the same level of service as community mental health services.
27 May 2008
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