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Mental health care in prisons
- Author:
- REED John
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(4), April 2003, pp.287-288.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Admission to prison offers a unique opportunity to assess and to start to meet the health care needs of a population with high levels of physical and psychiatric morbidity, many of whom rarely come into contact with the NHS. Drug and alcohol problems can be addressed. However, prisons are not hospitals, and (unlike prisoners with serious physical illness) many prisoners with serious mental illnesses requiring NHS in-patient care remain in prison.
Review of health and social services for mentally disordered offenders and others requiring similar services: volume 2; service needs; the reports of the community, hospital and prison advisory groups and an overview by the Steering Committee
- Authors:
- REED John, chair
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 278p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Highlights the wide variety of needs of mentally disordered offenders and the need for careful planning to take proper account of these needs. Contains three separate reports on the community, hospital and prison advisory groups and an overview by the Steering Committee. Each individual report presents its own recommendations for the future.
Review of health and social services for mentally disordered offenders and others requiring similar services: volume 5; special issues and differing needs; the report of the official working group on services for people with special needs
- Authors:
- REED John, chair
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 142p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents discussion papers on the special needs of mentally disordered offenders. Includes papers covering the following groups: people with learning difficulties; people with brain injury; the deaf or hearing impaired; substance misusers; sex offenders with mental health care needs; and potential suicides. Also looks at the special needs arising from a person's ethnic, cultural or social background, age or gender including: ethnic minority groups; children and adolescents; elderly people; women; and homeless mentally disordered offenders.