Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 6
6
Accepted
Paragraph: 39
Integrated healthcare for prisoners requires expansion to ensure timely access to services
Conclusion
The NHS should expand on its work to commission integrated healthcare across all three estates so that prisoners can access proper physical and mental healthcare services at primary and secondary level as appropriate and without undue delay.
Government Response Summary
The government states Drug and Alcohol Treatment Requirements and secondary care Mental Health Treatment Requirements are already available, with efforts to raise awareness. Through the Community Sentence Treatment Requirements Programme, they are on track to introduce primary care MHTRs to half of England by 2023.
Paragraph Reference:
39
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Requirements and secondary care MHTRs are already available to sentencers in every court and we are in the process of raising awareness among the judiciary about their availability. Through the Community Sentence Treatment Requirements Programme, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), MoJ, HMPPS, NHS England, NHS Improvement and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) are working together to ensure greater use and improved access to timely and appropriate mental health and substance misuse services for offenders who need them. The programme, which uses NHS Long Term Plan funding, is on track to introduce primary care Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) to half of England by 2023.