Prisoners: Mental Health Services
(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of prisoners who are waiting no more than 14 days to be admitted to a secure hospital.
This question was answered on 8th November 2017
Information on how many prisoners waited more than 14 days to be transferred to a secure hospital since 2010 is not available in the format requested.
The Prison Transfer and Remission Guidance, published by the Department in 2011, is currently being reviewed by NHS England. The particular focus of this work is on ensuring that the timescales within the Guidance take into account clinical urgency and need.