Older prisoners (aged ≥ 50 years) are the fastest growing subgroup in English prisons, and have complex health and social care needs. In a previous study, prisoners and prison and health-care staff worked together to ...

We aimed to review prison healthcare expenditure internationally by systematically reviewing healthcare spending on prisoners worldwide, examine comparability between countries, and develop guidelines to improve reporting. ...

For the purpose of this chapter, we are defining a forensic population as comprising individuals who are being managed or restricted by the criminal justice system. Usually, this means that they are people who have committed ...

Background: Risk assessment informs decisions around admission to and discharge from secure psychiatric hospital and contributes to treatment and supervision. There are advantages to using brief, scalable, free online tools ...

A high proportion of forensic mental health service users (FSUs) are recalled to secure hospitals from conditional discharge in the community. The limited research on recall to date has preliminarily identified why FSUs ...

Aims and hypothesis Commissioning changes, and LSUs becoming a more integral part of the care pathway in the Thames Valley Forensic Mental Health Service (TVFMHS), may have led to an impact on patient management. We ...