The Burnet Institute Report - External component of the evaluation of drug policies and services and their subsequent effects on prisoners and staff within the Alexander Maconochie Centre - is an independent evaluation of drug policies and services at the Alexander Maconochie Centre.
The report acknowledges the importance of continuous quality improvements in delivering important health services to some of our most at risk members of the community.
Background to the Burnet Institute Report
Meeting the health and wellbeing needs of our detainees presents distinct challenges.
Most of our detainees have complex health histories - 91 percent of surveyed inmates reported a lifetime use of illicit drugs, with two-thirds of those having a heroin addiction.
Three quarters of respondents reported that their current prison sentence was related to drugs and 79 per cent reported that they were affected by drugs when they committed the relevant offence.
While the Report acknowledges that the ACT Corrections Health Program and Forensic Mental Health counselling services are providing effective services and activities for the inmates, it also demonstrates that there is more work to be done.
The Government is committed to undertaking this further work, as indicated in its Final Response to the Report.
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In this section:
- Annual Reports
- Citizen's Jury on Health Priorities 2010
- Dual Diagnosis
- Review of Public Maternity Units in the ACT
- ACT Public Health Services Quarterly Performance Report
- ACT Secondary student alcohol and drug report 2008 (ASSAD)
- Aged Day Care Centre Program Review
- Analysis of the needs of injecting drug users in the ACT
- Calvary Public Hospital Options
- Canberra Midwifery Program Demand Analysis Report
- Review of Services and Competitive Issues
- Emergency Department Report Card
- HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategic Framework for the ACT 2007-2012
- Karralika redevelopment
- Mental Health and Wellbeing in the ACT
- Nurse Practitioners in the ACT - The Framework
- Respite Care Final Report
- Responding to the Medical Indemnity Crisis
- Tobacco Report on the National Competition Policy Review of Tobacco Legislation
- Chief Health Officer Reports
- Health Review 2002 (Mick Reid)
- National Partnership Agreement (NPA)
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander on Pathology Forms
- ACT Secondary Schools' Alcohol and Drug Survey 1999 (ASSAD)
- ACT Surgery Report Card
- Air Quality in Winter in the Tuggeranong Valley, ACT
- Calvary Audit Report (Acumen Alliance)
- Canberra Hospital Research Report 2004 - 2006
- Cervical Cytology Register Statistical Report 2008
- Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan
- Health Status of Young People in the ACT 2011
- Indoor air quality monitoring
- Maternity care intention, duration and rates of breastfeeding
- Neurosurgery Service Final Report
- Primary Health Care Strategy 2006-09 Final Report
- Respite needs government response
- Review of Clinical Governance Arrangements at the Canberra Hospital
- Waiting Lists for Elective Surgery and Medical Treatment
