A paper outlining how the Irish Prison Service has kept Covid-19 out its settings has been published by the Oxford University Press.
The article, which is on the Journal of Public Health website, describes the approach to contact tracing taken by the Irish Prison Service.
It outlines the methods taken by the prison National Infection Control Team and the National Quality Improvement team, working with the Health Service Executive, to implement a programme developing and training in-prison contact tracing teams.
The paper points out that contact tracing teams were run by prison staff with experience of working with detainees. The paper concludes that a partnership approach with development of prison-led contact tracing teams can provide an