Care UK, the large private healthcare company recently awarded a £53m contract to run prison healthcare in the North-East, has revealed a restructuring plan which will affect 116 out of about 400 employees. The former NHS staff, which include a number of nurses, provide healthcare services to about 5,000 inmates at prisons and young offender centres across the North-East.
A spokesperson for Care UK said, “The majority of the posts identified as at risk are not front-line clinical staff, but are back office and management roles. The economies of scale offered by running eight prisons as a cluster, the advent of new technology and innovative ways of working allow for efficiencies to be made.”