Abstract
Palliative care for all has been an ideal we have strived for over many years. If we are to realize this ideal we cannot discriminate – although some would argue that we are required to because of resource challenges. A few years ago an incident in a Welsh hospice brought the issue of palliative care for prisoners into the news and opened up an important debate. A young man was transferred to a hospice in the last few days of his life. His prison officers, working to protocols, insisted he remained restrained even though, according to the hospice staff, he was in no fit state to attempt to escape. Thankfully, following this incident, national debate and close working between the UK National Health Service and Home Office, practice changed and new protocols developed.
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