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Short-changed: spending on prison mental health care
- Authors:
- BROOKER Charlie, et al
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 15p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
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. Short-changed finds that there is wide variation in funding for prison mental health care which cannot be explained by higher costs or different needs between regions. Some 4,700 prisoners now get support from inreach teams. But this is much less than the estimated one in twelve prisoners who has severe mental health problems.
The 10 essential shared capabilities: a framework for mental health practitioners
- Authors:
- BRABBAN Alison, McGONAGLE Ian, BROOKER Charlie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Workforce Development, 1(3), 2006, pp.4-14.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The 10 Essential Shared Capabilities (ESC) are a description of the core aspects of practice that support effective implementation and delivery of mental health care. The ESC have been derived directly from work with users, carers and mental health personnel. To support their introduction a learning pack was developed giving examples of the 10 ESC as they relate to current practice. A pilot programme across England was developed to test the acceptability and potential utility of these materials and this paper reports on the evaluation of that pilot programme. Facilitators (n=75) and learners (n=579) were asked to rate each of the seven modules contained in the learning pack. A number of recommendations have been made to improve the materials that are being acted upon.
The second national survey of mental health in-reach services in prisons
- Authors:
- BROOKER Charlie, GOJKOVIC Dina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (The), 20(Supplement 1), April 2009, pp.11-28.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The prevalence of mental disorder among prisoners is considerably higher than that in the general population. Historically, mental healthcare in prisons has been criticised for being under-funded and provided by the Prison Service. The 2001 policy Changing the Outlook envisaged multi-professional prison mental health teams funded by the local primary care trusts. Such teams are now in place, managing offenders with severe mental illness, but they have faced challenges. The second mental health in-reach team survey was conducted in 2007 and aimed to capture a variety of data, including: workforce features; connections with primary care services; the role of in-reach services, their caseload, the interventions provided, and barriers to successful operation; and the relationship with the wider NHS. It was found that the role and activities of in-reach teams had changed considerably since the first in-reach survey was undertaken in 2005.
Out of sight, out of mind: the state of mental healthcare in prison
- Authors:
- BROOKER Charlie, ULLMANN Ben
- Publisher:
- Policy Exchange
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The prison population is at its highest ever. Of the 82,000 prisoners in England and Wales it is estimated that nine out of ten have one or more mental health disorders. Coverage includes public attitudes to offenders with mental illness, the offender mental healthcare; assessment of prison mental healthcare; and spending, staff and savings. It is argued that the findings of Lord Ramsbotham's 1996 report, which was heavily critical of prison healthcare services, are as relevant today as when they 12 years ago.