Nursing in Justice and Forensic Health Care Forum

The 11th Health and Justice Summit will be held at the Royal College of General Practitioners, on the 17 to 18 October 2024. It will explore 'how excellent care can be championed and patient safety maintained when teams are empowered and enabled to embrace reflection, learning and improvement as part of daily care provision, within a culture of psychological safety'. 

RCN resources

• Dementia Care Principles for People in Prison. This document sets out the five principles, based on evidence gathered from people living with dementia, carers and practitioners.
• RCN advice guide. Violence in the workplace
• Independent Advisory Panel for Deaths in Custody & RCN. Avoidable natural deaths in prison custody: putting things right
• Nursing in justice and forensic health care clinical topic. This specialist area contains information and resources relevant to those working in the field of nursing in justice and forensic health care.
• Time and space: mindfulness based videos for nursing staff. Six videos covering different stages of your day. See also: Time and space: enabling diffusing activities (2019)
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidance (2016). To support the decision making process of when not to perform CPR in prisons and immigration removal centres.
• Migrant health. Information for nursing and midwifery staff to help signpost them to useful resources and where they can direct people to access health care.

Further resources

• Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Disclosure of rape or sexual assault (SARCS)
• HM Inspectorate of Prisons (2024) The long wait: A thematic review of delays in the transfer of mentally unwell prisoners
• National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) (2024) Prison healthcare
• NHS England. A review of health and social care in women’s prisons
• NHS England. Combatting racial discrimination against minority ethnic nurses, midwives and nursing associates
• Nuffield Trust. Inequality on the inside: Using hospital data to understand the key health care issues for women in prison
• RCPCH. Healthcare standards for children and young people in secure settings
• RCPsych. Standards for Prison Mental Health Services – Fifth Edition
• University of Surrey. How is cancer care best provided to patients in English prisons?