The Care Quality Commission
  • Prison healthcare

HMP Prison Winson Green

HM Prison Birmingham, Winson Green Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 4AS (0121) 466 6000

Provided and run by:
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

All Inspections

27 & 28 February 2018

During an inspection looking at part of the service

We carried out this announced inspection on 28 February 2018 under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. Our inspection team was led by a CQC health and justice inspector, accompanied by a second CQC health and justice inspector.

The purpose of the inspection was to follow up on a Requirement Notices that we issued following a joint inspection with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons in February 2017 and to check that the provider was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Act.

The joint inspection report can be found at: https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk

This focused inspection report covers our findings in relations to those aspects detailed in the Requirement Notice dated 4 July 2017. We issued two Requirement Notices under Regulations 12 and 15 of the Health and Social Care Act to the trust.

We do not currently rate services provided in prisons.

3, 4 March 2014

During a themed inspection looking at Offender Healthcare

We carried out this inspection in partnership with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons. During the inspection we spoke with twelve people who had used the healthcare service. We spoke with clinical and administrative staff as well as the head of healthcare for the prison. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust was responsible for providing a range of physical healthcare services as well as a 15 bed in-patient ward.

The people we spoke with told us that they felt staff had treated them with dignity and respect. We saw that a comprehensive range of physical healthcare services were being provided by the trust.

There were well developed procedures in place to ensure that treatment could continue when people transferred to different services.

We looked at the training records for the clinical staff. This showed that the majority of training considered mandatory by the trust had been delivered at the required frequency. This included training such as safeguarding of vulnerable adults and infection control. Staff were also able to work towards additional training and qualifications where it was relevant to their role. This allowed the nursing staff to develop specialisms in areas such as asthma and chronic and long term conditions.

There was a patient's forum which was attended by a manager from the healthcare service. Healthcare representatives from the prison population were appointed to represent people using the service.