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Draft substance misuse treatment framework and Standards for mental health services for prisons

 

Question 1: Do you agree with the structure and content of the clinical treatment pathway set out in Chapter 2 of the SMTF – and its focus assessment, follow-on care and treatment, and support following release from prison – for both alcohol and drugs?

 

Question 2: Do you agree with the focus of the guidance for resettlement set out in Chapter 3 of the SMTF?

 

Question 3: Do you agree with the required workforce developments set out in Chapter 4 of the SMTF?

 

Question 4: Do you agree with the requirements around access to information systems set out in Chapter 5 of the SMTF?

 

Question 5: Do you agree with the proposed universal standards for mental health services in the prisons and their focus on the following areas:
  • Reception and assessment – including arrangements for the assessment of former users of secondary mental health services
  • Treatment and recovery
  • Discharge and transfers
  • Safety
  • Patient experience
  • Collaborative partnerships
  • Medication management
  • Wider prison environment
  • Workforce
  • Leadership and governance
  • 24 hour mental health care
  • Welsh Language

 

Question 6: Do you have any challenges to the evidence set out in the SMTF and the new standards for mental health standards and how can these challenges be addressed?

 

Question 7: We have issued a draft Children’s Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) for consultation alongside the draft SMTF and the draft standards for mental health services in the prisons.

Do you agree with our assessment of impacts on children’s rights set out in the CRIA?

 

Question 8: We have issued a draft Equalities Impact Assessment for consultation alongside the draft SMTF and the draft standards for mental health services in the prisons. Do you agree with our assessment of impacts on those with protected characteristics?

 

Question 9: We have issued a draft Welsh Language Impact Assessment for consultation alongside the draft SMTF and the draft standards for mental health services in the prisons. Do you agree with our assessment of impacts on Welsh Language?

 

Question 10: We would like to know your views on the effects that the draft SMTF and draft standards for mental health services in the prisons would have on the Welsh language, specifically on opportunities for people to use Welsh and on treating the Welsh language no less favorably than English. What effects do you think there would be? How could positive effects be increased, or negative effects be mitigated?

 

Question 11: Please also explain how you believe the draft SMTF and the draft stndards for mental health services in the prisons could be formulated or changed so as to have positive effects or increased positive effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language, and no adverse effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.

 

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