Archived: Bridgewater CHCFT HMP/YOI Hindley

Updated 18 February 2019

HMP YOI Hindley is a male category C resettlement prison, holding both adults and young people (aged 18 – 21) located near Wigan in the Greater Manchester area. At the time of our inspection the population was around 700 prisoners.

Health care services at HMP YOI Hindley are commissioned by NHS England. The contract for the provision of healthcare services is held by Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Bridgewater). The trust is registered with CQC to provide the regulated activities of Diagnostic and Screening procedures, Treatment of disease, disorder or injury and Surgical Procedures at HMP YOI Hindley.

Our last joint inspection with HMIP was in December 2017. The joint inspection report can be found at:https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspections/hmp-hindley-2/

Updated 18 February 2019

We carried out an announced focused inspection of healthcare services provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Bridgewater) at Bridgewater CHCFT HMP/YOI Hindley (HMP YOI Hindley) on 14 December 2018.

Following our last joint inspection with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) in December 2017, we found that the quality of healthcare provided by Bridgewater at HMP YOI Hindley did not meet regulations. We issued one Requirement Notice in relation to Regulation 17, Good governance, of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

The purpose of the inspection was to determine if the healthcare services provided by Bridgewater were now meeting the legal requirements and regulations under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and that prisoners were receiving safe care and treatment.

We do not currently rate services provided in prisons.

At this inspection we found that the trust had made a range of improvements to the management structure and governance processes to monitor and improve patient care and safety.

• Infection prevention and control was appropriately monitored and staff had been given appropriate training to carry out their roles.
• Local patient concerns were appropriately monitored and complaints were no longer recorded in patient clinical records.
• Managers had arranged additional training for all staff in the incident reporting and management system and the reporting and investigating of incidents had improved significantly.
• There was a range of engagement with patients to help improve the quality of the service and responses to patient surveys were positive about the service.
• Access to routine GP appointments was generally within two weeks.
• There had been a number of staffing changes in the pharmacy team and a lead pharmacist for the prison health service had oversight of pharmacy services at HMP YOI Hindley.
• Two pharmacy technicians had been recruited to support nurses with medicines administration and management and there were clear plans in place to provide further pharmacy input into HMP YOI Hindley.
• Local managers were working effectively with prison management to drive forward a range of improvements to prisoner health and wellbeing.