Prison Health Discharge Planning – Evidence of an Integrated Care Pathway or the End of the Road

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ID12714711
AuthorsWendy Dyer (0000-0002-8861-5549, Northumbria University, corresponding author), Paul Biddle (0000-0001-8605-2730, Northumbria University)
Year2013
Volume12
Issue4
Pages521-532
Publication date2013-01-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Policy and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-7464 • E-ISSN: 1475-3073
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1474746412000693
OpenAlexW2025581832
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited20

Improvements in offender healthcare are key to the current UK Government's reform of the criminal justice system and the aims of reducing reoffending and protecting the public. Current approaches to offender health care emphasise the importance of ‘continuity of care’. Reference to the ‘offender health pathway’ suggests the existence of seamless delivery and experience of care; however, evidence suggests these remain some way off. This research explores prison health discharge planning in four North East prisons and uncovers elements of good practice, but also a number of challenges the prisons continue to face in their attempts to improve clinical pathways for prisoners being released or transferred, including institutional, staffing and prisoner issues. These challenges need to be acknowledged and addressed if robust discharge planning and continuity of care at the end of the offender health pathway is to be achieved

Criminal justice · Criminology · Discharge planning · Face (sociological concept · Government (linguistics · Health care · Political science · Prison · Public relations · Sociology · Staffing · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Public Administration

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