Funding for this research was provided by:
Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust
Article History
Received: 29 May 2018
Accepted: 13 November 2018
First Online: 3 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval for this study was granted by the Department of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee, Northumbria University. All interviewees were provided with full information about the study and signed a consent form agreeing to participate and agreeing that anonymised information they provided could be included in this article. The project upon which the article reports was a service development opportunity as outlined by the requirements of the MoJ funding competition. It was not a research project and therefore no ethics permissions were obtained. Support for the implementation of the project was obtained from the MoJ, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), individual Prison Governors, and the NHS Trust Offender Health Governance board.
: Interviewees signed consent forms for anonymised data from their interviews to be published in articles submitted to journals for publication.
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