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<p>NHS England is working with partners across the criminal justice and immigration
removal system to improve services for offenders and detainees with mental health
difficulties.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service England specialised commissioners
and NHS England health and justice (H&J) Commissioners have also been working
collaboratively alongside the mental health team in NHS England to develop work to
improve mental health of prisoners and to develop and improve the system for transfers
and remissions of adult prisoners to mental health hospitals</p><p> </p><p>Mental
health summits are being delivered regionally to develop the whole offender mental
health pathway, identifying local anomalies, and gaps as well as good practice, and
producing locally owned action plans to improve services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition,
new service specifications have been published for both low and medium secure hospitals
as well as prison mental health services. The prison mental health specification embeds
the ‘Standards for Prison Mental Health Services’, developed by the Royal College
of Psychiatrists to ensure high quality care for all.</p>
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