Our Services

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides integrated primary care services in six Kent prisons.

• HMP Elmley
• HMP Swaleside
• HMP Rochester
• HMP Maidstone
• HMP East Sutton Park
• HMP Standford Hill

Our services include low and high-intensity primary and social care interventions to adults and young offenders. This includes health, education and activity programmes. As well as GP and nurse-led clinics that provide both emergency and planned care and long-term conditions management.

In addition, Oxleas also provides inpatient healthcare services to inmates of HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside.

Oxleas provides 24-hour nursing care for people who require inpatient admission with physical health, mental health and substance misuse needs. We also care for service users with severe and enduring mental illness who are awaiting transfer to a mental health secure hospital.

How we provide services

As Prime Provider, Oxleas provides over-arching management and services such as nurse-led primary care directly. Sub-contracted partners provide other key services.

Services provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust include:

• Reception and first-night screening
• Secondary screening 
• Primary care and secondary mental health care 
• Substance misuse services
• Unplanned and emergency care 
• Public health initiatives and NHS Health Checks 
• Vaccinations (including flu and COVID)
• Palliative care
• Nurse-led clinics, including LTC, blood, HEPC, sexual health, NHS health checks, triage and ACP

Service provided by partners sub-contracted by Oxleas include:

• GP services (South London Prison Services Ltd)
• Psychosocial interventions for substance misuse and transfer and resettlement (Change Grow Live)
• Optometry (Pen Optical Services)
• Pharmacy services (Oxleas Prison Service Ltd)
• Podiatry, physiotherapy, MSK and pain management, orthopaedics, and genito-urinary medicine (KCFHT - Kent Community Health Foundation Trust) Diagnostics Health Share Ltd