The inquiry explored the effectiveness of prisons and prison healthcare services in meeting the physical and mental health, and social care, needs of prisoners
Witnesses Sean Cox, Head of Development, User Voice, Hazel Alcraft, Development Officer – Health, Clinks, Stuart Ware, Chief Executive Officer, RestoreRebecca Roberts, Head of Policy, INQUEST, Elizabeth Moody, Acting Prisons and Probation OmbudsmanProfessor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General Practice, and, Jan Fooks-Bale, Health & Justice Inspection Manager, Care Quality Commission, and Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector of Prisons, Paul Tarbuck, former Head of Healthcare Inspection, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons
Witnesses Frances Crook OBE, Chief Executive, Howard League for Penal Reform, Dr Jake Hard, Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners Secure Environments Group, Ryan Harman, Advice & Information Service Manager, Prison Reform TrustJackie Doyle-Price MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities, Department of Health and Social Care, Kate Davies OBE, Director of Health & Justice, Armed Forces and Sexual Assault Services Commissioning, NHS England, Dr Éamonn O’Moore, National Lead for Health and Justice, Public Health England, Edward Argar MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice, Digby Griffith, Director of Commissioning and Executive Director of Rehabilitation and Assurance, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service