Securing Excellence in Commissioning for Offender Health
Purpose of the document
1. From April 2013, the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) will take up its full duties to ensure that the NHS delivers better outcomes for patients within its available resources and upholds and promotes the NHS Constitution. As a single national organisation, the NHS CB will be responsible for ensuring that services are commissioned in ways that support consistency not centralisation; consistency in ensuring high standards of quality across the country. The NHS CB will work through its national, regional and local area teams to discharge these responsibilities.
2. One of the NHS CB‟s responsibilities will be to commission directly health services or facilities for persons who are detained in prison or in other secure accommodation and for victims of sexual assault. This document sets out the operating model through which the NHS CB will secure the best possible health outcomes for prisoners, detainees, children and young people in secure settings. These outcomes should be equivalent standards of care to those in the wider community.
3. The operating model has been developed collaboratively with stakeholders across the NHS and Youth and Criminal Justice System, including key contributions from colleagues in the Department of Health, regional and local NHS offender health teams and National Offender Management Service and the Home Office. This document is the one of a series describing the commissioning arrangements of the NHS CB, which includes victims of sexual assault, primary care, specialised services, military health and those public health services commissioned by the NHS CB (i.e. screening, vaccinations, and child health for 0-5 year olds and public health for people in prisons).
4. Our ambition is to support commissioners in delivering a consistent, high quality approach to the delivery of services that secure the best outcomes for people in prisons and other secure settings. The NHS CB will use the framework to drive local improvements in quality and outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
Published : 28th February 2013
Publisher : NHS Commissioning Board [ More From This Publisher ]
Rights : Crown Copyright
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