FoI Number
2024-380
Subject
Scottish Prisoners
Date Received
10/10/2024
Request and Response
  1. Please provide me with all details you can in relation to the number of prisoners in Scottish jails that the health board has treated in EACH financial year from 2012/13 onwards.

Nil – there are no jails/prisons in Shetland. Please refer to the Scottish Prison Service site for details of prisons in Scotland and in which Health Board they are based: https://www.sps.gov.uk/prisons

  1. Please can you break the above information down for EACH of the last three financial years to show the types of medical assistance provided for prisoners, i.e. admissions for injuries, elective procedures etc.

N/A

  1. In EACH of the last three financial years, how many NHS staff have been assaulted by prisoners from Scottish jails during the prisoner’s NHS treatment/appointment? Please break the figures down to provide as much information as you can, i.e. whether the attack was sexual, physical or verbal in nature.

N/A