This onsite X-ray service in correctional facilities enables more care delivered closer to home and reduce avoidable hospital transfers for assessment and treatment. It reduces the barriers faced by patients in correctional facilities.
West Moreton Prison Health Service onsite X-ray service
Initiative Type
Model of Care
Status
Deliver
Added
24 August 2021
Last updated
24 August 2021
Summary
Key dates
Mar 2021
Aim
To enable patients in correctional facilities to receive more care closer to home and reduce barriers they face in accessing healthcare by taking X-rays onsite, providing appropriate treatment, and reducing avoidable transfers to hospital.
Benefits
- reduced avoidable transfers to PAH
- reduced ambulance ramping at Emergency Departments (ED) due to the reduced number of patients transferred to hospital for X-rays
- reduced costs for transporting patients to hospital (security costs and ambulance costs)
- reduced infrastructure strain at PAH Secure Unit
- increased numbers of patients treated closer to home
- reduced failure to attend rates for outpatient appointments for X-rays
- nurses enabled to work to their full scope of practice
- reduced time spent in ED waiting for X-rays as the X-rays have already been done at the correctional facility prior to transferring athe patient to the hospital.
Background
Prisoners are the end users of the health service that is provided to meet their health needs. As with any other patient or healthcare community they have the same rights to health care services and to having their voices heard.