Our strategy
Queensland Health and Queensland Corrective Services are committed to quality prison health care and services.
Our health and wellbeing strategy supports our plan to help people in prison get the care they need to stay healthy and well.
Read our Queensland Prisoner Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2020–2025 (PDF 6304 kB).
Our goals
We’re working to:
- help people in prison manage their own health and improve their wellbeing
- make sure people can get the same care in prison as in the community
- form strong partnerships between government agencies and stakeholders
- connect prison and community health services so people get the right care when they leave prison.
How we developed the strategy
We worked with a range of organisations and individuals to help us develop the plan, including:
- health professionals
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health organisations
- prison officers
- unions
- consumer groups.
We also asked prisoners in Queensland to give us feedback on the draft strategy.