Prison

[keme1]

What is prison like for helping people with illnesses? A friends partner has been sentenced and he had a lot of illnesses m, I’m worried he won’t be looked after.

he didn’t take his tablets regular anyway

I have never been a prisoner but I have visited a few prisons either to visit a friend who was a prisoner or in connection with my university course.
In general healthcare is good. There are prison nurses and a doctor who runs a surgery nearly every day. One prison Governor told me it was easier for a prisoner to get medical help that it was for his family.
I hope your friend's partner tells the prison staff that he needs medication and when he needs. It is very doubtful that he will be allowed to keep medication in his cell as drugs are a major problem in prisons. That means someone will give him each dose as required.

He will see a health care professional in arrival at reception, there’s a whole induction process that involves a lot of waiting around, admin, and assessment. If he is well enough he will be placed in general population. If not he will go onto a dedicated healthcare wing. Both of these will have a little hatch where you queue for your medication when your cell is unlocked, if you need giving medication when you’re locked “behind the door” a nurse comes round with a medicine trolley (the “jolly trolley” the drug addicts call it). His cell should have a buzzer to ring if he needs help urgently. In order to see a doctor (non emergency) you can request in an application form. You have to request most things in this way, but if the officers are aware of his health confound this may be more streamlined.
That’s the way it used to be, though it may change from prison to prison.

I think it's controlled well. I've not been in prison but knew a couple of female POs.

Nearly everyone in prison has some kind of medication prescription. Obviously there's the methadone. But also any other drugs they give them it at a set time and they take it in front of staff so they don't hoard it, skip it, sell it etc.

From what I've heard they will give him everything he needs in a fairly regimented manner.