Resources for Secure Environments

Resources from the Royal College of Nursing

• The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced useful resources for nursing staff working in justice and forensic settings. These include a range of national guidance, examples of good practice, case studies and publications.
• The RCN has produced six 'Time and space' mindfulness based videos, each around seven minutes long, covering different stages of the day. They have been produced to help clinical staff manage the stresses of the working day.

Resources from the Royal College of Psychiatrists

The Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services

The Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services (QNPMHS) was set up in 2015 to promote quality improvement in prison mental health services. It is one of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement programmes.

The QNPMHS engages mental health services who are part of its membership in an annual cycle of self and peer-review. The network aims to: promote quality improvement; share best practice; encourage openness; create a model of engagement and help services benchmark against other ‘like’ services, plan future improvements and demonstrate the quality of their care provision.The QNPMHS runs events and also shares learning both through publishing resources from their past events and by running an online discussion forum on the QNPMHS group page of the knowledge hub. Members can join the knowledge hub by email prisonnetwork@rcpsych.ac.uk. Enquiries about QNPMHS can be made to Kate Townsend, Programme Manager. Email: Kate.Townsend@rcpsych.ac.uk

The QNPMHS has produced the 'Standards for Prison Mental Health Services', which provide a framework for assessment of the quality of care provided by mental health services, through a process of self and peer review.