Prison health

The CQC has once again reviewed healthcare for young offenders and praises improvements in how healthcare is managed by Youth Offending Teams (YOTs). As is often the case, there is criticism of how transfer from child to adult services, along with transfer between custody and community and the usual pleas for better communication between YOT staff and healthcare workers. As the commissioning role for prison based substance abuse treatment is transferred from the Ministry of Justice to the Department of Health, some guidance about how the changeover will work from DH. Further details on service design will be offered in the forthcoming Building Recovery in Communities framework (BRiC), which has been the subject of recent consultation.