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Table 1 Prisons healthcare oversight: authority, budget administration and funding source, EU/EEA and United Kingdom (UK), 2016/2017

From: Hepatitis C virus infection in EU/EEA and United Kingdom prisons: opportunities and challenges for action

 

Prisons healthcare authority

Prisons healthcare budget administration

Prisons healthcare funding source

Belgium

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Bulgaria

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Croatia

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Health insurance and State budget

Cyprus

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

..

Czech Republic

Ministries of Health, Justice, Interior and Healthcare department of prisons systems

Ministry of Justice

Health insurance

Denmark

Ministry of Health and Healthcare Department of prisons systems

Healthcare department of prisons systems

Ministries of Health and Justice

Estonia

Ministry of Justice*

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Finland

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health and State budget

France

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health and State budget

Germany

Ministry of Justice

**

**

Iceland

Ministries of Health, Justice, Interior and Healthcare department of prisons systems

Ministry of Health and Healthcare department of prisons systems

State budget

Ireland

Ministry of Justice

Healthcare department of prisons systems

Ministry of Justice

Italy

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Latvia

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

State budget

Lithuania

Ministries of Health and Justice

Ministries of Health and Justice

State budget

Malta

Ministries of Health and Interior

Ministry of Interior and Healthcare department of prisons systems

Ministry of Health

Netherlands

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Norway

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

State budget

Poland

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Portugal

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Romania

Healthcare department of prisons

Healthcare department of prisons system and Health insurance

Ministries of Justice, Interior and Health insurance

Slovakia

Ministries of Health and Justice

Ministry of Justice and Health insurance

Ministry of Justice and Health insurance

Slovenia

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

State budget

Spain

Ministry of Health***

Ministry of Health***

Ministry of Health***

Sweden

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

Ministries of Health and Justice

UK

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Justice and State budget

  1. Source: HIPED
  2. .. No data
  3. *Authority reported to be Ministry of Health in EMCDDA database [28]
  4. **Prisons healthcare budget administration: Ministry of Justice and health insurance of individuals: 2 (North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse), Ministry of Justice: 6 (Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Berlin, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein), Ministry of Justice and state budget: 7 (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Bremen, Bavaria), State budget: 1 (Baden-Wüttemberg); Prisons healthcare funding source: Ministry of Justice: 15; Other: 1 (Brandenburg – Prisons)
  5. ***Ministry of Health in Catalonia and Ministry of Interior in rest of Spain