Nuffield Trust: Inequality, injustice… inaction? Prisoners' use of hospital services compared to the general population (11 December 2023)

Summary

Prisoners have a right to the same standards of healthcare available to people in the community, and although we might suspect that people in prisons don't always receive the care they need, this is a difficult issue to get at through research. So how can we meaningfully compare hospital use between those in prison and those who are not? Miranda Davies and Eilís Keeble used a novel matched control methodology to show that prisoners use services less than people with similar health characteristics who are not incarcerated.