TY  - JOUR
AB  - The standard of health care in prisons should be equivalent to that provided in the community. Prison populations are multiply disadvantaged and primary health care practitioners in prisons routinely face organisational and ethical challenges which are rare in community‐based general practice. This raises the question of whether doctors working in prisons consider they would benefit from additional clinical skills or training, the range of prison‐specific competencies they consider important and what they would like to see included in induction programmes. Through a series of semi‐structured, faceto‐face interviews with doctors and health care managers working in prisons, this study sought to
identify views on the training needs for doctors working in prisons. Practitioners demonstrated that induction processes were varied and fragmented and that delivering primary care in prisons raised additional clinical and organisational challenges. Relationships with prisoner patients were generally good. Few ethical issues were raised by this small sample, with the exception of confidentiality. However, aspirations towards equivalence were tempered by tensions between custodial needs and clinical requirements, and more research should be directed to the ways practitioners negotiate this interface. Induction programmes should ensure that all practitioners receive practical and ethical guidance to help them address these tensions.
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SN  - 1744-9200
DO  - 10.1080/17449200600743628
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17449200600743628
AU  - Marks Linda
AU  - Gray Andrew
AU  - Pearce Sarah
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - General practice in prisons in England: Views from the field
T2  - International Journal of Prisoner Health
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 49
EP  - 62
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -