At our recent Annual Conference, Dr Iain Brew, our Registrar & Prison GP, spoke powerfully about the essential role of healthcare in prisoner rehabilitation. Yet this BMJ Quality & Safety study — analysing 15,000 records — makes clear that the reality still falls short: https://tinyurl.com/4d37jacy
The incidence of avoidable healthcare-associated harm in prisons in England: a retrospective case note review
Objective To estimate the incidence of avoidable healthcare-associated harm for prisoners in England. Design A retrospective cross-sectional case note review of prisoner healthcare records. Setting 18 prisons in England were purposively sampled for maximum variation of characteristics based on prison category (open, local, training, high security and female), type (publicly and privately run) and population size. Population After screening 15 027 prisoner records, two cohorts were selected: a sample of 6294 ‘enhanced risk’ prisoners and a random sample of 853 prisoners not included in...
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