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<p>NHS England is working with partners across the criminal justice system to improve
services for offenders with mental ill health and have developed a comprehensive 10
point plan which clearly sets out the work underway to improve the pathway to and
from prison to appropriate in-patient mental health care services. This will set out
actions to improve the timely transfer and remission of patients, including how this
will be implemented and sustained.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how many prisoners
have waited for more than 14 days for a transfer to hospital under the Mental Health
Act 1983 in each of the last three years is not available in the format requested.</p><p>
</p><p>Information is collected on the number of transfers, not the number of individual
prisoners who are transferred. An individual prisoner may undergo more than one transfer
in any given time period.</p>
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