Prison Health Care
Achievements:
January 2018 - December 2018
Nursing Times Awards 2018
Prison Health Care
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Prison Healthcare was a finalist at the 2018 Nursing Times Awards in the HRH
Prince of Wales Integrated Approaches to Care category.
The submission detailed improvements in Prison Healthcare and how leadership has been enhanced
through partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Royal College of Nursing
(RCN) with organisational comprehensive training and induction for all staff.
The whole team has embraced Quality Improvement Methodology with a range of innovative
improvements:
• ECHO (Engaging Communities for Healthcare Outcomes) - First of a kind in prison healthcare
with national engagement bringing together healthcare, prison staff and clinical specialists
across UK Prisons providing a platform for sharing best practice to improve our end of life
care, self-harm and Blood Borne Viruses (BBV)
• Improving sexual health - major public health issue, through partnership with QUB
• Therapeutic choir
• Co-production with development of Peer Health Mentors, a first in UK prisons
• Safety Quality and Experience (SQE) project - Innovative Pain Management Programme to
Reduce Dependence on Analgesia
• Health Screening Programmes established (AAA, BBV, Cancer, Diabetes, TB)
• Inter Trust relationship work ensuring safe transfer of care
• Health Champions - engagement and promoting wellbeing
• Weekly lessons learned 'sound bites' to all staff
• Successful Smoking Cessation Clinics.
In April 2018 the Inspectorate Team acknowledged that it was the most change they had ever seen in
a prison environment and described it as transformational.
Other initiatives have been '10 x 9' story telling events, 'In your Shoes, In my Shoes' workshop and
the 'Spanner in the Works' drama project.
Evaluations of events held have been extremely encouraging, with users reporting feeling valued and
involved.