Other documents and conferences

1. Conference: World Class Mental Health Commissioning 2009, Making an impact?


2. Conference: Primary Care Commissioning for Offenders


3. Services for people with rheumatoid arthritis

Commissioning healthcare in prisons

The results of joint work between the Healthcare Commission and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons in 2007/08 - This report gives the findings from the inspections of prisons during 2007/08 relating to the delivery of healthcare and the management of substance misuse. It gives recommendations for primary care trusts on how to improve services.

Published February 2009, 20 pages

Other documents, websites and conferences

North West Specialised Commissioning Team (NHS Net Link)

Dying patients given greater choice to die at home at no extra cost to the NHS, King’s Fund report concludes

Integrated Drug Treatment System for Prisons (IDTS): allocations for 2008/09

Putting prevention first - vascular checks: risk assessment and management

Good practice in offender health

The report outlines examples of good practice in provision of health care services to offenders in prison and the community. The examples have been drawn from surveys, internet search and individual submissions. From all of the documents and sources reviewed, over 400 were selected as potential examples of good practice. The examples have been distilled from that selection and form the results of the survey.

(Published July 2007, 81 pages)

National Partnership Agreement: commissioning of health services for prisoners

The National Partnership Agreement is an over-arching agreement between the Secretary of State for Health and the Home Secretary for and on behalf of Her Majesty’s Prison Service. It is intended to underpin and complement the local partnership arrangements between NHS Primary Care Trusts and public sector prisons within the Prison Service. This is an updated version of the National Partnership Agreement issued in 2003. This document is intended to cover accountability and commissioning for health services for prisoners from April 2006, when transfer of commissioning responsibility for services from HMPS to NHS. Primary Care Trusts will be complete. It is intended that this document will be regularly reviewed and revised as appropriate.

(Published 15/01/07, 18 pages)