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That Justice Health require custodial Health Service Providers to:
29.1. engage with Victoria's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to learn how culturally safe and culturally appropriate principles can be embedded into their delivery of health services to Victorian prisoners. This process should be ongoing, guided by Victoria's Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities and be conducted in the manner determined by these communities;
29.2. encourage and facilitate the doctors employed by the Health Service Provider to become members of the RACGP to enable them to access RACGP training programs;
29.3. identify alternative alcohol and other drugs training programs for medical practitioners;
29.4. ensure medical practitioners employed or contracted by the Health Service Provider for a period of more than six months complete training equivalent to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Alcohol and Other Drugs GP Education program within six months of the practitioners commencing.
29.5. ensure registered nurses employed by the Health Service Provider complete the Australian College of Nursing’s Continuing Professional Development modules in: 29.5.1. addressing AOD Use in Diverse Communities; and 29.5.2. opioid Withdrawal Nursing Care and Management.
29.6. employ medical practitioners and nurse practitioner qualified to practise opioid pharmacotherapy; and
29.7. employ a full-time specialist who has completed Advanced Training in Addiction Medicine.