Regional Offender Health Care Award
The West Midlands Offender Health Care Award has been established to give recognition to teams and individuals whose innovative approaches and best practice improves the quality of life for offenders in the West Midlands. This can take place at any point along the offender care pathway. This is a great opportunity for recognition of the work we are undertaking in the West Midlands and to share this work within the wider offender health community and beyond.
Our Award for 2010 has now been completed and the winner was announced on October 7th. The winner was Joanne Campbell, well done to her, the team around her and all of our shortlisted entries. You were all worthy winners. If you have an innovative service to share, do please contact us, we'd be happy to share your stories on our website. Contact us here.
The winner was...... Joanne Campbell, Clinical Development Lead, HMP Hewell
Joanne Campbell is a Clinical Development Lead nurse at HMP Hewell, a role she has developed to achieve a number of outcomes. Her work includes the development of nurse led clinics; non-medical prescribing, helping to drive forward Blood Borne Virus work and ensuring agencies involved with patients are effectively engaged. Jo has managed this while promoting offender health. She has presented at national and regional conferences on prescribing. More recently she shared her thoughts on offender health at a Celebrating Advanced Practice conference at Worcester University. Jo works closely with Worcester University on offender health, where the first named award for a BSc for Offender Health in the country has been developed.
The award panel concluded that this role supports offender healthcare leadership, promotion and prevention, productivity and champions awareness of this area of healthcare across different groups and agencies.
Pictured below are Elizabeth Buggins CBE, DL (NHS West Midlands Chairman), Dr Bernie Gregory (NHS Worcestershire Clinical Director for Prisons), Joanne Campbell and Dr Denise Porter (local GP and presenter of Embarassing Bodies on Channel 4).
Shortlisted projects..........
Sister Jeannie Williams
Jeannie leads a service that provides care and treatment for individuals in prison with Hepatitis C. Including pre and post testing discussions, health promotion and harm minimisation advice. For those individuals with a Hepatitis C positive result further tests are undertaken in-house and these ensure that confidentiality is maintained and escort costs are minimised to specialist clinics. The service also offers treatment for the condition, achieved through development of close links with the specialist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and resulting in a prison-specific Hepatitis C policy and regular clinics with the hospital Hepatitis C specialist nurse.
The award panel concluded that this service promotes a little represented but important clinical area in an innovative way.
South Staffs Criminal Justice Mental Health Team (CJMHT)
The South Staffs CJMHT is a multi-disciplinary team that provides screening and sentencing assessments, liaison and signposting services for criminal justice and health organisations across the South Staffordshire area. It has close links with the local medium-secure in-patient unit and forensic mental health units across the region. The service provides mental health assessments for offenders at Cannock and Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Courts, at Probation offices across the area and at Stafford Police Station. It also provides training and advice to Criminal Justice Services and works closely with local Community Mental Health Teams, housing providers and Specialist Teams.
The awards panel concluded that this service offers a good example of multi-agency engagement and delivery, seeking to deliver the holistic support recommended in the Baroness Corston and Lord Bradley reports.
Addiction Dependency Solutions (ADS), Staffordshire
ADS deliver structured day care and drug interventions across Staffordshire. They have devised a sports programme, encouraging offenders to engage using a range of linked interventions, some statutory, some voluntary complementing medical, police & probation objectives. The provision includes healthy eating workshops, cooking, health and hygiene, sexual health, acupuncture, gender specific activities, complementary therapy classes, table tennis and football. Offenders have worked with the Police to link our project to a community project that will continue beyond their involvement in the criminal justice system and become a long-standing criminal diversion that maintains fitness and health.
The award panel concluded that ADS have excellent prisoner and multiagency engagement and partnerships and have a clear sustainable approach for their service