Requirements:

• Access to psychiatry, psychology and MHO assessment
• Access to prison mental health services including visiting psychiatry, psychology services and social work
• Criteria for access to National, Supra Local and Local level specialist expertise, treatment and care
• Access arrangements to generic mental health and learning disability hospital services
• Procedures/guidance on planning and co-ordination of prison to hospital, and hospital to prison transfers, including information sharing (including consent)
• Implementation of prison discharge procedures (as per SPS Health Care Standard 5)
• Mechanisms for maintaining links between the prison and relevant community based mental health, learning disability and social work services
• Arrangements for maintaining links between person’s CPA Co-ordinator/Local area co-ordinator and prison health and social care services
• Assessment for, and on-going planning of, care management, CPA/Personal Life Plan, augmented CPA, as appropriate
• On-going liaison between health, social work and prison services