The Offender Health Research Network is funded by Offender Health at the Department of Health, and is a collaboration between several universities, based at the University of Manchester. 

• to develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency network focused on offender health care innovation, evaluation and knowledge dissemination
• staff capability building through training opportunities and active involvement in health care research
• to work toward developing the frequency and quality of user/carer involvement in offender health care provision and research 
• to develop a "pathway to research", outlining the processes required to successfully undertake research in the Criminal Justice System, including information on funding, research ethics and governance, and practical information about conducting research in such unique environment

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Conferences and Workshops (updated 30 November)
12 December: A workshop to determine the research and development priorities for meeting Health and Social Care Needs of Ex-military Offenders
11 January 2012: Signalling Fundamental Change? The Mental Health Act 2007 and Confronting Contemporary Needs within Psychiatry

Funding Opportunities (updated 30 November)
21 December: Age UK - Research to improve health and wellbeing for older people

Policy and Reports (updated 29 November)
All Workstreams: Self-harm: Longer-term management
All Workstreams: Deaths in Custody Newsletter November 2011
All Workstreams: Safer Prescribing in Prisons
All Workstreams: Health and Social Care Update November 2011
All Workstreams: Newsletter November 2011
Substance Misuse: Substance Misuse Detainees in Police Custody: Guidelines for Clinical Management (Fourth edition)
Public Health: National guidance on commissioning sexual health and blood borne virus services in prisons

Policy and Reports (updated 31 October)
All Workstreams:Thematic Inspection Report: Equal but different? An inspection of the use of alternatives to custody for women offenders
All Workstreams:The independent investigation into the life-threatening self harm of 'JL' at HMYOI Feltham
All Workstreams:Rewiew of Medical Theories of Restraint Deaths
All Workstreams:Counselling in Prison Network - Newsletter 3 October 2011
Mental Health:Response to the offender personality disorder consultation
Mental Health:Inpatients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983 and patients subject to supervised community treatment, Annual figures, England 2010/11
Mental Health: Mental Health Atlas 2011
Substance Misuse:Drug Treatment and Recovery 2010-11
Substance Misuse:Delivering alcohol brief interventions in the criminal justice system: evaluation of a pilot project

Funding Opportunities (updated 31 October)
15 December: NIHR SDO - 11/1024 Innovations in secondary mental health services
15 December:NIHR SDO - 11/1025 Improving clinical productivity
15 December: NIHR SDO - 11/1026 Rapid evidence syntheses on efficiencies
20 January 2012: NIHR RfPB
30 January: NIHR HTA - Clinical Evaluation and Trials
19 March: NIHR Progamme Grants for Applied Research - 12th Competition

Conferences and Workshops (updated 31 October)
21-23 March 2012: British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders 12th Annual Conference

Policy and Reports (updated 17 October)
All Workstreams: Health and Social Care Update October 2011

Conferences and Workshops (updated 17 October)
30-31 January: Historical Clinical & Risk (HCR): Version 3

Policy and Reports (updated 8 October)
All Workstreams: Statistical analysis of all recorded deaths of individuals detained in state custody between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2010 
All Workstreams: Learning from PPO investigations:Violence reduction, bullying and safety

Funding Opportunities (updated 3 October)
NIHR Public Health Research Programme – Researcher-led work-stream

Conferences and Workshops (updated 3 October)
19 November: Drugs, Crime and Addiction
1 December: Prison and Personality Disordered Offenders
10-11 May 2012: Best Practice in Violence Risk Assessment with Adolescents

Policy and Reports(updated 3 October)
All Workstreams: Health and Social Care Update September 2011
All Workstreams: Re:Actions A third review of healthcare in the community for young people who offend
Mental Health:Autism spectrum disorders in children and young people: recognition, referral and diagnosis
Mental Health:Procedure for the transfer of children and young people in custody to and from hospital
Mental Health: Mental health care and the criminal justice system
Substance Misuse: Services for the identification and treatment of hazardous drinking, harmful drinking and alcohol dependence in children, young people and adult

Policy and Reports (updated 12 September)
All Workstreams:Evaluation of the Leicestershire and Rutland probation Trust Health Trainer Service 
All Workstreams: An Assessment of the Health Needs of Offenders in West Sussex
All Workstreams: Counting the Cost: The financial impact of supporting women with multiple needs in the criminal justice system
All Workstreams: The Social Care Needs of Short-Sentence Prisoners
All Workstreams: Q&A on health services in secure children’s homes and secure training centres
All Workstreams: Delivering the NOMS Offender Management Model
All Workstreams: Evaluation of Intensive Alternatives to Custody pilots
All Workstreams: Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) on Deaths in Custody: 5th Newsletter
All Workstreams:Health and Social Care Update July 2011
Mental Health: Procedure for the transfer of children and young people in custody to and from hospital
Substance Misuse: Commissioning young people’s substance misuse services in secure estate