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12. POINTS OF NOTE
12.1 The prison should make sure that it has a regime in place suited to the needs of long-term prisoners (paragraph 2.26).
12.2 The prison should monitor the impact of long-term prisoners routinely sharing cells (paragraph 2.26).
12.3 The need to reduce the staff complement at night should a prisoner require to be taken to hospital should be addressed (paragraph 3.19).
12.4 The Drug Strategy Group should meet on a regular basis (paragraph 4.1).
12.5 Medical and Nursing staff should be trained to assess whether a prisoner should be started on methadone during Reception (paragraph 4.4).
12.6 The need for the practice of handcuffing prisoners between the Reception and the vehicle taking them out of the prison should be established (paragraph 5.4).
12.7 Information leaflets in the most common foreign languages should be available as a back up to the telephone translation service (paragraph 5.9).
12.8 A review of the format of the induction booklet to ensure it is accessible to prisoners with reading difficulties should be undertaken (paragraph 5.12).
12.9 A process should be put in place to ensure that prisoners understand the key information in the induction booklet prior to the individual attending the induction programme (paragraph 5.12).
12.10 Consideration should be given to formalising the temporary Sentence Management arrangements for long-term prisoners (paragraph 5.22).
12.11 A review of the Restart Course and the Living Skills Course should be carried out to ensure that a clear objective is being met and to provide a statement of outcomes (paragraph 5.28).
12.12 Nurses staying with medical staff during prisoner consultations should be the exception rather than the rule (paragraph 6.5).
12.13 The process of dispensing afternoon medications in the residential areas should be improved (paragraph 6.6).
12.14 Consideration should be given to providing the Multi Disciplinary Mental Health Team with input from a psychiatrist (paragraph 6.14).
12.15 Waiting times to see the dentist should be addressed (paragraph 6.21).
12.16 Systems should be put in place to ensure that long-term prisoners have routine dental treatment or check ups (paragraph 6.22).
12.17 Storage of pharmacy medications in the residential areas should be improved (paragraph 6.24).
12.18 The use of qualified nurses to dispense pre-packed medications should be reviewed. (paragraph 6.25).
12.19 Learning, Skills and Employability would be further improved by closer working between regimes staff and staff in the learning centre (paragraphs 7.2 and 7.20).
12.20 Management should consider how best to support, co-ordinate and quality assure the work of the peer tutors in the learning centre to ensure greatest impact (paragraph 7.8).
12.21 The links between Learning Skills and Employment activity and overall Sentence Management should be improved (paragraph 7.17).
12.22 Both regimes and the learning centre should operate a quality assurance system to ensure continuous improvement of teaching and the learning experience (paragraph 7.21).
12.23 Referrals from the residential areas relating to housing and benefits matters should be referred to agencies in the Links Centre rather than to the Social Work Unit (paragraph 8.14).
12.24 The prison should consider setting up a formal Race Relations Monitoring Group (paragraph 8.26).
12.25 More in-depth training and qualifications should be available to prisoners working in the kitchen (paragraph 9.20).
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