The 12th Health & Justice Summit

The focus of this year’s Summit is ‘Healthy Humane Justice’.

Over the 2 days, we will explore the essential components of a holistic approach to improving health and equitable access to care for people in contact with the justice system.

We will examine current barriers and enablers of quality healthcare access within prisons and community-based justice and look at the evidence for upstream early intervention, targeted public health, and good modern primary care, including the evidence for adopting an inclusion health approach where there is multiple disadvantage and intersectionality.

We will unpick what works in effective drug and alcohol treatment and recovery, and evidence-based best practice for mental health care. We will also explore the evidence for personalised care, gender-specific approaches, and reasonable adjustments in the justice system, and look at how relational trauma-informed practice, kindness, hope and compassion together with addressing wider determinants of health are key building blocks of good health and wellbeing for both staff and patients.

We will examine learning from international systems and give a platform to the latest research aligned with the theme and key topics of the conference – which are:

• Patient participation
• Equitable access
• When things go wrong
• Developing and supporting the workforce
• Growing the next generation
• International justice
• Emerging issues and areas of change within the justice landscape
• Research snapshots