HMP Woodhill

Updated 6 December 2017

HM Prison Woodhill is a Category A male prison, located in Milton Keynes, England and can accommodate up to 819 prisoners. The prison holds remand and sentenced prisoners aged 18 and above. In addition, Woodhill is one of the eight national high security prisons, holding category A prisoners, some in the "Closed Supervision Centre". Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) provides a full range of primary health and mental health, including emergency response services, first night assessments and prescribing services to the prison population at HMP Woodhill.

Updated 6 December 2017

We undertook a focused inspection on the 20 and 21 September 2017 under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The purpose of the inspection was to follow up on a Requirement Notice that we issued following a previous focused inspection in September 2016 and to check that the provider was meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Act.

Our key findings were as follows:

• The trust was focused on increasing staffing levels and had implemented a rolling recruitment programme. To ensure a range of services were provided to patients, managers at the trust had reviewed the service and recruited a number of associate mental health practitioners to provide group work and one to one therapies.
• Joint working between partner agencies had developed since our previous inspection and was fully embedded across healthcare services.
• Prisoners could now self-refer to mental health services.
• Patients we spoke with were positive about their contact and experience of healthcare services within HMP Woodhill.