Updated 8 March 2017
HMP Swaleside is a category B training prison on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. At the time of this inspection it held just over 1,100 adult men, all serving long determinate or indeterminate sentences. Its catchment area is mainly London and the South East but as a national resource it also held men from across England and Wales.
Integrated Care 24 (IC24) provided a range of healthcare services to prisoners comparable to those found in the wider community. This included GP, pharmacy and nurse-led clinics.The location is registered to provide the regulated activities, diagnostic and screening procedures, personal care and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
CQC inspected the services in partnership with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons on 4 to 7 April 2016 and issued a requirement notice requesting the provider make improvements regarding:
• Staffing
• Safe care and treatment
These constituted breaches of Regulations 12 and 18 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. We checked these areas as part of this focussed inspection and found they had been resolved.