Criminal Justice Resources

Mental Health, Criminal Justice and the Big Society: Everybody's Responsibility

Sir Keith Pearson JP, Chairman of NHS Confederation delivering the Centre for Mental Health Lecture, 15 February 2011

Watch the video of the lecture and download the transcript below.





Download the lecture transcript (466 KB)


Watch the response from Louis Appleby, National Clinical Director for Health and Criminal Justice, Department of Health



All in the mind: Radio 4

All In the Mind talks to Sean Duggan, who used to be a mental health nurse and is now our Chief Executive.

Listen to this episode of All in the mind from June 2009.

Mental Health and Prisons:
Sainsbury Centre Lecture

15 November 2006

The lecture was chaired by Lord David Ramsbotham and given by John Podmore, head of community prisons and transitional facilities at the Home Office and until recently governor of HMP Brixton.

Mr Podmore set out three priorities for action:

  • Diversion of offenders with severe mental health problems from prison to more appropriate alternatives;
  • Better support for prisoners with a 'dual diagnosis' of substance use and mental ill health; and
  • The need to give better care to prisoners with 'lower level but debilitating' mental health problems such as depression.

Download Lecture (Word, 61 KB)

 

The CJ System in a nutshell

Jon Collins of the Criminal Justice Alliance gives a brief overview of the criminal justice system.

A guide to working with offenders with personality disorders

NOMS and the Department of Health have published a practitioners guide to working with offenders with personality disorders. It is designed to provide practical, hands-on advice to other frontline staff working with offenders with highly complex needs.

Guidance on confidentiality

The GMC has published some guidance on confidentiality. It sets out the principles of confidentiality and respect for patients' privacy that doctors are expected to understand and follow. It covers such issues as disclosing information in the public interest, sometimes without a patient's consent.