by Dr Éamonn O’Moore, Director of the UK Collaborating Centre for WHO Health in Prisons (European Region)
The work of WEPHREN is guided by a Steering Committee made up from members of the WHO Health in Prisons Programme Steering Group and other experts in the field who meet once a quarter to review the delivery plan for WEPHREN and provide advice and support to the WHO UK Collaborating Centre in delivering the objectives. Find out more here.
Go to pageWEPHREN supports World Hepatitis Day on July 28th by collecting and sharing resources from around the world for prisons on the WEPHREN website. Please watch the video message from Dr ...
WEPHREN supports UNODC's #WorldDrugDay on June 26th by collecting and sharing resources from around the world for prisons on the WEPHREN website. Please watch the video messages from Dagmar ...
People in prison experience a higher burden of communicable diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV often linked to a history of injecting drug use. In ...
Wednesday 18 July saw the launch of the 3rd edition of A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff, co-authored by Professor Andrew Coyle, Emeritus Professor ...
Please see this link for the latest on the Prison Healthcare Inquiry by the Health and Social Care Committee in the UK. The inquiry will explore the effectiveness of prisons ...
The Royal College of GPs has published a position statement that sets out how 'equivalence of care' between secure and non-secure settings should be defined. According to the College's ...
The PHE Health and Justice Annual Review is a recurring publication that captures a broad range of activity led by PHE’s National Health and Justice team across all domains ...
Amy Robinson, Helen Sweeting, Kate Hunt, Tobacco control, 2018 Prisoner smoking rates remain high, resulting in secondhand smoke exposures for prison staff and non-smoker prisoners. Several jurisdictions have introduced prison ...
There is a lack of systematically collected and comparable data on the health of incarcerated people. The Health in Prisons European Database (HIPED) was developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with the UK Collaborating Centre for ... Read more
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global public health problem in correctional settings. Due to the intersection of substance use disorders and the criminal justice ...
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