The Development of a National Healthy Prisons Framework in the Irish Prison Service

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Elaine Dunne (PID210)

Author

Elaine Dunne

Health Protection Nurse, Irish Prison Service, Ireland

Registered General Nurse with over 20 years experience. Working for the Irish Prison Service for the past 17 years, first working in Cloverhill Remand Prison before transferring to the Midlands Prison where she showed a keen interest in Mental Health and Addiction and became the Addiction Nurse for the Midlands Prison. She became the lead healthcare professional working with the peer-to-peer Red Cross Volunteer programme.

She then trained as the smoking cessation officer and commenced rolling out the smoking cessation programme for the Irish Prison Service. Following the arrival of Covid-19, she answered the call for nurses to work as part of the National Infection Control Team to prevent the transmission of Covid among the prisoner and staff population. Since then she has completed a masters in Health Promotion and a Diploma in Quality Improvement. She uses these skills to create a healthy prisons framework for both staff and prisoners.

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