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Women's Services:
The Primrose Project/DSPD Women’s Services is designed to deliver more effective healthcare interventions to dangerous women to reduce risk to self and others. It is recognised that the issues affecting service provision for women may be different from those of men. Women’s services provide a further expansion to the already established national DSPD Programme. (Click here to download the 'Planning and Delivery Guide for Women's DSPD Services - Primrose Programme' in PDF format) It is recognised that dangerous women who challenge services are poorly catered for within the Criminal Justice, Forensic Mental Health and Penal systems. This collaborative joint services pilot project rises to the challenge and is benchmarked by current policy requirements. The service is designed to deliver specialist healthcare interventions to women in a prison setting. The group of women likely to meet the DSPD criteria is thought to be very small and currently almost exclusively within the prison estate. The pilot programme will take place in HMP Low Newton and would support up to ten women. The purpose of the therapeutic programme will be to work with women in HMP Low Newton who have care needs that extend beyond that which current mental health services can address, and for whom transfer to the NHS is not deemed appropriate. Capacity building and skills transfer within and between multi-professional teams will be an integral part of the service development. The new service will draw on the best practice from both the Prison Service and the NHS to develop a hybrid model of health intervention for some of the most vulnerable women in any healthcare system. The pilot project core team’s vision is for the service to incrementally develop into a comprehensive assessment, treatment and management facility that will offer a national resource. The team will identify the women, for which the pilot programme will be applicable and sound efforts will be put into winning the trust of the women prisoners. Additionally, the emphasis will be upon building the foundations for strong working relationships between Prison Service and NHS staff. The terms of engagement will be negotiated between the parties involved. The vision is for the service to incrementally develop into a comprehensive assessment, treatment and management facility that will offer a national resource. The aim of the project is to establish a therapeutic programme where the key outcomes sought will be: • Assess women for appropriate risk reduction interventions • Provision of access to a range of effective interventions • Reduction of identified risks • Provision of support systems for the Prison Service in managing dangerous women • The provision of services that the women perceive as being beneficial by instilling hope into their lives Once established the service will offer a national assessment, management and advisory function to the wider women’s prison estate and related agencies, which will include: • Consultations to Segregation Units • Sentence planning for appropriate cases • Assessments for MAPPP committees for appropriate cases • A provision for transferring prisoners to and from HMP Durham/Low Newton who meet the entry criteria for the programme (and for the high secure prison estate) • A provision for facilitating the transfer of prisoners in the programme to and from NHS provision, who satisfy the appropriate criteria in the Mental Health Act 1983 For further information contact: Theresa Noutch
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