{"id":343969,"date":"2025-12-12T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:48:24","slug":"women-jailed-at-hmp-bronzefield-due-to-lack-of-mental-health-beds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343969\/","title":{"rendered":"Women jailed at HMP Bronzefield due to lack of mental health beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another issue is that the shortage of beds in secure psychiatric hospitals results in significant transfer delays for prisoners. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the reporting year, a total of 48 prisoners transferred to secure psychiatric hospitals, compared with 34 in 2023-2024 and 56 in 2022-2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The target time for transfer is 28 days from the date of referral. This target was met in 45% of cases, with a further 27% waiting more than 56 days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This puts considerable pressure on staff, other prisoners and beds, the IMB found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The board praised prison staff for their performance in extremely challenging conditions, highlighting that HMP Bronzefield was never intended to provide the specialist mental healthcare to the extent now required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another issue is that the shortage of beds in secure psychiatric hospitals results in significant transfer delays for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-343969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}