Speeches by Cox.

“I have more of a reflection than a question. We were talking about reality; I just want to talk about some realities. Many prisoners are released without a home, an address, access to a GP, access to a social worker, or access to a form of employment or volunteering. These are barriers to their effective rehabilitation…”

“Is that engagement good, bad or indifferent?”

“So you are using KPIs to measure effectiveness. If we home in on drug treatments and the effectiveness of your work in that sphere, how would you comment on that?”

“Do you set your own KPIs for service level agreements or are they set externally?”

“Thank you very much. Dr Green, could you give us an overview of how Practice Plus Group delivers as a healthcare provider in prisons?”

“So some of it is commercially sensitive and not in the public realm?”

“How much of the commissioning process is in the public realm, and how much of it is deemed commercially sensitive and therefore unable to be in the public realm?”

“No further questions, Your Honour. That was really what I wanted to ask about that. We were going to ask if there is sufficient data sharing between services but you have just answered that, so thank you.”

“So your average prison governor would not be able to see the data you are inputting, collecting and collating from the population?”

“Thinking about the connected piece, is that NHS dataset connected to GPs or someone’s NHS number more generally? Do prison governors have access to that NHS data?”

“Could you tell us what data The Forward Trust holds on individual prisoners and how you share it with the appropriate services to enable joined-up working around those people?”

“Would you like me to move to data sharing, Chair?”

“Do you think there is space for prison governors to be more directly involved in the commissioning process of such services?”

“Dr Haydock,you mentioned this in your written evidence to us.”

“Perhaps we could elaborate on that. What would be the advantages of a directly commissioned service?”

“Yes.”

“We will go straight to commissioning, if we may. What is your experience—good or bad—of being commissioned to provide substance misuse services in prisons?”

“Recall levels remain really high.”

“I have more of a reflection than a question. We were talking about reality; I just want to talk about some realities. Many prisoners are released without a home, an address, access to a GP, access to a social worker, or access to a form of employment or volunteering. These are barriers to their effective rehabilitation…”

“Thank you, and good afternoon. Could you explain to us how prison healthcare is commissioned?”