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Guidance on developing local prison health delivery plans

This paper provides new guidance around the development of local prison health planning for the two year transitional period 2004/5 to 2005/6 with a steer that planning arrangements for prison health should be fully integrated and mainstreamed within local NHS and Prison Service planning arrangements from 2006/7. This paper needs to be considered against the wider context of the developing NHS & Prison Service partnership and the progressive transfer of commissioning responsibility for prison health care to PCTs by 2006/7.