Plans to change prison medical service

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Plans to change prison medical service
artdoc June=1991

The Home Secretary Kenneth Baker has laid plans to abolish the
prison-run medical service after a recent report revealed that
jail suicides nearly doubled in the 1980s.
The new medical service, endorsed by an internal Home
Office scrutiny report, would be provided by NHS doctors
instead of prison medical administrators. The decision comes
after complaints about prisoners' medical treatment were made
by the British Medical Association and the Royal College of
Physicians. (Independent 5.3.91)

IRR Police-Media Bulletin no 68. Institute of Race Relations,
2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS.

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