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<p>NHS England is the commissioning body responsible for ensuring high quality low,
medium and high secure hospital accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this role,
NHS England has developed a national approach to ensuring close partnership working
with local NHS England health and justice teams to review patients’ needs and expedite
access to secure mental health beds. This also includes a more detailed understanding
of challenges in the system in relation to remissions from hospital to prison, so
that access, progress and throughput is improved.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissioned
a repeat of the 2017 National Health Service benchmarking audit on transfers and remissions
in early 2019, and a full analysis of this data is currently taking place. This information
will help to ensure that challenges and delays in the system are addressed to ensure
timely and appropriate transfers of care.</p><p> </p><p>The current ‘Prison Transfer
and Remission Best Practice Guidance’, published by the Department in 2011, is being
reviewed and two separate documents are being developed to replace it: one for immigration
removal centres and another for prisons.</p>
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