Table HSR-7. Health responses in prison [see all tables in this series...]

Part (i) Level of provision of selected health responses to prisoners in 26 EU countries, Norway and Turkey in 2008 (expert ratings)

Country		Individual counselling on infection risk	HCV test on entry	Pre-release counselling on overdose risk	Safer use training for prisoners	HCV test on release	Prison needle and syringe programmes (NSPs)
Belgium		Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist
Bulgaria		Limited	Limited	No information	No information	Does not exist	Does not exist
Czech Republic		Rare	Limited	Rare	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist
Denmark		No information	No information	Limited	No information	No information	Does not exist
Germany		Limited	Limited	No information	Does not exist	No information	Rare
Estonia		Limited	Extensive	Rare	Rare	Limited	Does not exist
Ireland		Limited	Limited	No information	Does not exist	No information	Does not exist
Greece		Rare	Extensive	Limited	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist
Spain		Extensive	Extensive	Rare	Extensive	Extensive	Extensive
France		Rare	Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist
Italy		Extensive	No information	Extensive	No information	No information	No information
Cyprus		Rare	Full	Limited	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist
Latvia		Rare	Full	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist
Lithuania		Full	Full	Does not exist	Does not exist	Full	Does not exist
Luxembourg		Extensive	Full	Extensive	Extensive	Rare	Extensive
Hungary	(2)	Full	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist
Malta		:	:	:	:	:	:
Netherlands		Limited	Limited	Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist
Austria		Limited	Extensive	Rare	Limited	Rare	Does not exist
Poland		Limited	Does not exist	Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist
Portugal		Limited	Extensive	Rare	Rare	No information	Limited
Romania	(1)	Extensive	Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist	Rare	Rare
Slovenia		Limited	Limited	Limited	Rare	Rare	Does not exist
Slovakia		Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist
Finland		Full	Extensive	Rare	Limited	Limited	Does not exist
Sweden		Full	Full	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist
United Kingdom		Limited	Rare	Limited	Limited	Rare	Does not exist
Croatia		:	:	:	:	:	:
Turkey		Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist	Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist
Norway		No information	No information	No information	No information	No information	Does not exist

Notes:

 Where data are not available for a country the table entry is left empty. 

 Rating Scale (level of provision) 

  Full: Nearly all prisoners have received the service during the last year at least once  

  Extensive: A majority of prisoners (but not nearly all of them) have received the service during the last year at least once 

  Limited: More than a few prisoners (but not a majority of them) have received the service during the last year at least once 

  Rare: Just a few prisoners have received the service during the last year at least once 

 (1) A prison NSP started in Jilava Penitentiary (Romania) in June 2008, personal communication K. Ionescu, 26/03/2009. 

 (2) In Hungary, 32,5% of the prisoner population was tested for HCV in 2007 and 2008.               

 See also 'General notes for interpreting data' on the Explanatory notes and help page. 

Sources:

 Structured Questionnaire on 'Prevention and Reduction of Health-Related Harm associated with drug use' (SQ 23/29), submitted by NFPs in 2008 

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