Provision of Integrated Healthcare Services at Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre

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NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit awarded a contract to Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust for the provision of an integrated healthcare service at Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre on behalf of NHS England East Midlands Health and Justice Commissioning Unit.

The contract, valued at £6,500,000, aimed to improve health status and reduce morbidity and disability associated with physical or mental ill health and substance misuse, increase uptake of screening and immunisation programmes to reduce the spread of TB, blood-borne viruses, HIV, vaccine-preventable and other infectious diseases, and enhance positive health, social and psychological outcomes.

Services were to be informed by detainee views and feedback, reach out to detainees less able to seek them, including managing translation interventions and supporting those with learning disabilities, and provide personalised care including end of life care where needed.

Compliance with IRC Operating Standards and Home Office Removal Service Orders was required.

Morton Hall IRC, near Lincoln, opened in May 2011 with an operational capacity of 392 male detainees over 18, at varying stages of the immigration, asylum, removal and deportation process.