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Healthcare
At HMP Altcourse we are committed to providing the highest standards of healthcare to prisoners in our care. Our healthcare team is staffed 24 hours a day and is made up of qualified nurses and health care assistants.
Our staff approach their work in prisons and secure settings with a professionalism and commitment that lays the foundations for improved services and recognises the dignity of the individual. All our employees are selected and trained to respect the human rights and needs of detainees or prisoners. All staff are security vetted and provided with thorough induction training.
Visiting specialists include:
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Doctor
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Dentist
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Optician
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Chiropodist
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Psychiatrist
Nurse-organised clinics include:
- Diabetes
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Asthma
- Epilepsy
- Giving up smoking
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Healthy living
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Hepatitis
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HIV
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Blood testing
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Mental Health Care
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Counselling
Counselling
Counselling offers time and space in a confidential setting for prisoners to talk about the problems and difficulties that may affect their every day living such as: anger, bereavement, anxiety, stress, difficulty with relationships, emotional problems, past abuse or just the desire to change.
Counselling can help prisoners to help themselves. Through counselling prisoners may come to have a better understanding of themselves, their actions, their thoughts and their feelings and is available by referral to any member of staff.
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