Ms Caron McCaffrey:

I think the Deputy is right. That is certainly an area of efficiency for us. It is one of our priorities in the new strategy around digitalisation. We have been engaging on X-rays in particular.

Nursing homes have technology that allows X-rays to be carried out by a radiologist on-site rather than having to bring somebody to a hospital. We are looking to see what technology we could use within our Prison Service to reduce the requirement to bring prisoners to hospital. It is very costly. Every time we need to bring a prisoner to hospital, we need to take two or three staff out of that prison. As the Deputy referred to earlier, that can have an impact on services within the prison. In some cases, those services are only available within a hospital and particularly within an accident and emergency department but we have our own doctors, nurses and healthcare assistants at prison level. In my opening statement, I mentioned the training units. We have repurposed the training units in older prisons. We are doing a lot of proactive screening for things like prostate cancer and bowel cancer within the prisons. Within the training units, almost ten men have been identified as having issues we are now in a position to treat. The inreach model is a model-----