We have an ageing prison population and they have health care, personal care and support needs just as the rest of the population do. Providing care and support in a prison setting has a number of challenges and as the population who need care and support grows and grows older, we need to look at better ways of providing it to them.
This project is funded by the Scottish Government and has a number of key outputs:
- Phase 1: Analysis and review of current arrangements: by June 2018
The University of Dundee have been commissioned to carry out this phase which will take stock of existing arrangements for delivering social care in Scottish prisons in order to provide a clear basis for developing new approaches.
The outcome of this phase will be a report for the Health and Social Care Integration Workstream of the Scottish Government’s Health and Social Care in Prisons Programme Board.
- Phase 2: Developing models: by March 2019
Informed by the research this phase will be about developing a new approach to delivering health and social care and support in prisons. It will include suggestions for roles and responsibilities, reference commissioning and procurement processes, estimate costs and describe the potential legislative requirements.
- Phase 3: Testing models: by March 2020
The final phase will be about redesigning and testing of new models of health and social care integration in one or more prison.
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