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| Stop playing 'pass the parcel' with prisoner's health |
| By voxy.co.nz |
| Published: 02/16/2012 |
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New Zealand -- Government has got to stop playing "pass the parcel" with prisoner's health, said Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment, and a former Deputy Director General (Maori Health) in the Ministry of Health. He was commenting on today's release of a report by the Ombudsman on prisoner's health, which recommended that taxpayers would get better value and prisoners a better level of healthcare if prison health services were delivered by a health agency rather than the Department of Corrections. "Exactly the same recommendation came from the 'Health in Justice' report by the National Health Committee, which was released nineteen months ago. That report sunk from view, and numerous official information requests have been able to re-float it." "Over the last decade, Corrections have tried on three or four occasions to get an external health service to take responsibility for prisoner health. Each time they have passed the parcel, the health sector has opened the parcel, realised that the available money would deliver an inferior service, quickly re-tied it, and returned it to the sender." Read More. |
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