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Healthcare services in police custody
Healthcare services in police custody: a view from France
BMJ 2016; 353 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i2434 (Published 03 May 2016) Cite this as: BMJ 2016;353:i2434
- Aude Lepresle, psychiatrist1 2,
- Camille Vidal, resident in psychiatry and forensic medicine1,
- Patrick Chariot, forensic physician and professor of forensic medicine1 3
- 1Department of Forensic Medicine, Hôpital Jean-Verdier (AP-HP), 93140 Bondy, France
- 2Department of Psychiatry, CHU d’Amiens, 80000 Amiens, France
- 3Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), UMR 8156-997, UFR SMBH, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13, France
- patrick.chariot{at}aphp.fr
Forrester and colleagues disagree with the UK government’s decision not to pursue the transfer of custody healthcare commissioning to NHS England.1 They consider this decision as a missed opportunity to improve the quality of healthcare provided to arrestees detained in police cells. The authors confine their statements to the UK but the situation …
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