The hospital appointments of the inmates of England’s prisons are frequently cancelled and they receive less healthcare than the general public, according to a new report from the Nuffield Trust.
As many as four in 10 hospital appointments made for a prisoner were cancelled or missed in 2017-18, with missed appointments costing the NHS £2m. The report examined 110,000 hospital records from 112 prisons in England.
Full story in The Independent, 25 February 2020