Offenders frequently have substantial healthcare needs and, like many other socially marginalised
groups, often receive healthcare in inverse proportion to their needs. Improved continuity of healthcare over time could contribute to addressing these needs. General Practitioners need to be able to support people with complex social and medical problems, even in systems that are not specifically designed to manage individuals with such degrees of complexity. This study aimed to examine offenders’ perspectives on factors that contributed to, or worked against, creating and sustaining their access to healthcare.
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