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INSPECTORS raised serious concerns yesterday about staffing levels in health services for a high-security prison which has seen a spate of inmate deaths.
A Care Quality Commission report said HMP Woodhill’s mental health team — consisting of just three nurses, an interim deputy head and a clinical lead — was “insufficient to meet the needs” of the jail’s population.
The primary healthcare and mental health teams at the Milton Keynes facility had experienced staffing shortages for a “significant length of time” inspectors found.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
MARK FAIRHURST highlights the main issues facing officers in a long neglected service, and raised by front-line delegates at POA conference last week, including understaffing, violence, bullying and the ongoing denial of workers’ right to strike
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society