Desk based report
During a routine inspection
In June 2016, during a scheduled joint inspection at HMP Foston Hall with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), we found issues related to the safe management of medicines. This was assessed as being in breach of Health and Social Care Regulations 2008.
Most health services at HMP & YOI Foston Hall are commissioned by NHS England, and provided by Care UK Clinical Services Limited. The full comprehensive inspection report of the June 2016 inspection, which was published on October 21, 2016, can be found on the HMIP website at: www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspections/hmp-yoi-foston-hall/
We carried out a desktop focussed review between March and May 2017 soley to ensure that changes had been implemented and that the service was meeting regulations. We found that the provider had made improvements in relation to medicine management since our last inspection in June 2016, and that it was meeting the regulation that had previously been breached.
Specifically, the provider had addressed concerns regarding the administration of medicines in a timely way. These included carrying out medicine management reviews with individual patients and changing prescriptions when appropriate, amending the policy regarding patients having medicines in their cells, holding stocks of some medicines on site, and allowing patients to have access to pain relief at night.