RCGP Secure Environments Group – 9th Health & Justice Summit: Just Health? – Principles and Practice to Promote Health Equity and Inclusion in UK and Global Justice Settings
Just Health – Principles and Practice to Promote Health Equity and Inclusion in UK and Global Justice Settings
Health is a fundamental human right. Equity is the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, where groups may be defined socially, economically, demographically, geographically or by other dimensions of inequality (e.g. sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation). Health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being. (WHO) Inclusion health is a service, research, and policy agenda that aims to prevent and redress health and social inequities among the most vulnerable and excluded populations.
The conference will look at systems and commissioning for fair health in justice settings. It will highlight good practice and identify evidence-based principles of reducing health inequalities in secure settings in the UK and globally. It will review UK policies relating to prisons and prison health, in light of the national agenda for addressing health inequalities. It will consider the impact of compassionate kind leadership and culture in health systems and public organisations and the impact of a healthy resilient trauma-informed workforce on patient care.
At this year’s summit, we will be covering:
• Leadership, Culture and Environment – Healthy leadership, healthy cultures, and healthy communities in secure environments. Trauma-informed care.
• Innovation and research – innovations in healthcare delivery and research submissions, both from within the UK and across the world.
• Workforce and training – growing and retaining a resilient compassionate team.
• Clinical priorities in the health inequality agenda – early cancer diagnosis, long-term conditions, (respiratory, hypertension/CVD), SMI, women’s health and maternity care. Aligning the agenda with the health and care needs of the prison population (mental health that isn’t SMI, substance misuse including changing drug trends in prisons and dependence forming medication, communicable diseases). ACEs as determinants of health.
• Learning lessons and preventing deaths – encouraging a healthy learning culture in which to learn from incidents and inquests. Sharing case studies, issues, actions, changes made in practice.
• Health inequalities in secure care – the global picture
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RCGP Secure Environments Group – 9th Health & Justice Summit
