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St Cronan's Parochial Hall

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

aid “getting agreement for transfer to hospital is like horse trading” and another said “it’s very parochial, a network is required”, suggesting that obtaining treatment in a civil psychiatric hospital depended upon contacts and favours. 3.77 Even when a bed in a civil psychiatric hospital was agreed, there were delays in transfer; for example, in Cloverhill Prison, at the time of the visit, four men had been waiting for transfer to civil psychiatric hospital for between two and four weeks. Further, some managerial and clinical staff raised legal concerns, suggesting that there were areas lacking clarity regarding the transfer of prisoners to hospital under bail conditions, including in relation to the IPS transport of such persons. 3.80 Many prisoners are homeless, and staff reported that this problem appeared to be increasing. Prisoners with mental disorder are over-represented within this group (and often also have lower daily living skills). For example, 50% of the mental health caseload of the in-reach psychiatric team at Cloverhill Prison were homeless. For many such persons, they have a triple handicap in accessing in-patient psychiatric treatment, in that they are disadvantaged by being offenders and mentally disordered, and by being homeless. Staff reported that some civil psychiatric hospitals would not even consider offering a bed to a homeless mentally ill minor offender, as they had no formal catchment area responsibility for the individual (as [...]

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Conditions Risk Score

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1/100
Low concern1/100
Overcrowding
0/30
Oversight reports
1/30
Structural flags
0/15
Death signals
0/15
Conditions text
0/10

What the score is responding to:

  • · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years

Reports

  • ie-oip1 Jan 2024

    aid “getting agreement for transfer to hospital is like horse trading” and another said “it’s very parochial, a network is required”, suggesting that obtaining treatment in a civil psychiatric hospital depended upon contacts and favours. 3.77 Even when a bed in a civil psychiatric hospital was agreed, there were delays in transfer; for example, in Cloverhill Prison, at the time of the visit, four men had been waiting for transfer to civil psychiatric hospital for between two and four weeks. Further, some managerial and clinical staff raised legal concerns, suggesting that there were areas lacking clarity regarding the transfer of prisoners to hospital under bail conditions, including in relation to the IPS transport of such persons. 3.80 Many prisoners are homeless, and staff reported that this problem appeared to be increasing. Prisoners with mental disorder are over-represented within this group (and often also have lower daily living skills). For example, 50% of the mental health caseload of the in-reach psychiatric team at Cloverhill Prison were homeless. For many such persons, they have a triple handicap in accessing in-patient psychiatric treatment, in that they are disadvantaged by being offenders and mentally disordered, and by being homeless. Staff reported that some civil psychiatric hospitals would not even consider offering a bed to a homeless mentally ill minor offender, as they had no formal catchment area responsibility for the individual (as [...]

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26%

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