Cancellation of hospital appointments for prisoners

“a more robust administrative process which ensures that community medical records for newly arrived prisoners are requested within a week in line with NICE Guidelines 57, PSO 3050; : . an audit of healthcare record requests in March 2017 to ensure the process was effective and efficient. As a result of your report | can confirm commissioners have asked SPFT to undertake a further audit which was completed in November with the outcome due to be shared by the end of December 2019”

“a clinical review of any appointments which are postponed. This includes a review by the GP to assess Clinical need and risk. Where the demand for external escorts exceeds availability, the GP will prioritise appointment attendance based on clinical need and any appointment cancelled is to be automatically re-booked with the hospital trust. This revised process including clinical review will suitably prioritise and prevent future failings to re-arrange cancelled appointments. The monitoring of this”

“the running of a regular report via SystmOne to ensure that healthcare records have been requested; and e © anominated member of staff checking that all newly arrived prisoners have been offered a full general health assessment to include the drafting of a care plan within 7 days of arrival. The checks to be noted on an internal document which is shared with all healthcare staff”

“New prisoners with chronic conditions are assigned to a named clinician. Depending upon the condition this may be a GP, [name redacted] or Primary Care Nurse”

“a more robust administrative process which ensures that community medical records for newly arrived prisoners are requested within a week in line with NICE Guidelines 57, PSO 3050; : . an audit of healthcare record requests in March 2017 to ensure the process was effective and efficient. As a result of your report | can confirm commissioners have asked SPFT to undertake a further audit which was completed in November with the outcome due to be shared by the end of December 2019”

“The Governor of HMP Lewes is committed to providing resources for external escorts to medical appointments. Currently, sufficient escorting staff are made available for three external hospital escorts each weekday, and appointments are prioritised by the healthcare team. In the event that there are inadequate resources because of other operational pressures and it is necessary to consider the cancellation of an external appointment, the Duty Governor contacts the healthcare team for advice on”