Which targets the Scottish Prison Service failed to meet in each of the last three years in relation to the report Standards for the Health…

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The results of an audit of Health Care Standards carried out in 1999 are shown in the following table.Following on from this piece of work, an external adviser was engaged by the Scottish Prison Service to consider how development of SPS' Health Care Standards might best be taken forward. It was agreed that by way of improving auditability, it was appropriate to revise our Health Care Standards. This work is now to hand. | No of Prisons
Standard | Achieved | Partially Achieved | Not Achieved | Not Applicable
1. 100% of prisoners will have their weight recorded on each admission to prison and their height recorded on their initial admission to prison. | 12(63%) | 4(21%) | 1(5%) | 2(11%)
2. Basic equipment to be provided within each consulting room, minimum size of 10.8m2, in the health centre shall include an examination couch, a mercury sphygmomanometer, scales, desk, three chairs, examination/treatment lamp, stethoscope, eye charts, ophthalmoscope, auroscope and a copy of BNF in 100% of cases. | 16(84%) | 2(11%) | 1(5%) |
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3. Provision of a telephone on a direct line in 100% of cases. | 18(95%) |
- | 1(5%) |
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4. 90% of appointments at outside hospitals will be kept. | 19(100%) |
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5. The maximum waiting time for a prisoner to be seen by a Visiting Specialist from date of referral to be urgent cases
- 4 weeks and routine cases
- 12 weeks in 80% of cases. | 18(95%) |
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- | 1(5%)
6. Adequate facilities must be provided for Visiting Psychiatrists in 100% of cases. | 14(74%) | 2(11%) |
- | 3(16%)
7. Routine cases referred to the Psychiatrist to be seen within four weeks in 100% of cases. | 18(95%) | 1(5%) |
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8. Urgent cases referred to the Psychiatrist to be seen within seven days in 100% of cases. | 17(89%) | 2