Guidance

Population screening: reducing inequalities in secure settings

Information for commissioners and screening providers to help improve access to screening for people in prisons and other secure and detained settings.

Applies to England

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This guidance provides information on how to improve access to screening for people in secure and detained settings.

Settings covered by this guidance include prisons, immigration removal centres, secure children’s homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions.

The guidance is designed to be used by providers and commissioners of local NHS screening services as well as prison healthcare teams.

See Population screening: access for people with severe mental illness for guidance on screening people in high, medium and low secure hospitals.

Contact the PHE Screening helpdesk with any queries about this publication, making sure you include its full title.

Published 19 March 2021