The context

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The head of London prisons at NHS England needed some urgent COVID support. Early in the pandemic, prisoners and prison officers were at high-risk of catching and spreading COVID throughout the prisons which could have led to detrimental outbreaks within the prison sites.

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Our role

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Help gather the daily situation report information and amalgamate to get a London-wide picture and identify the pinch points. 

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PCG worked with NHS England and the prisons to create a data template which was submitted daily by the sites. Off the back of this, PCG created a dashboard which pulled all the information together to show a clear picture of what was happening with key metrics such as numbers of isolated COVID beds available in each prison, number/percentage of workforce off sick due to COVID, number of prisoners with COVID, stock and supply of PPE equipment and other associated measures related to managing COVID within the prisons.

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The outcome

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Informed decision making based off clear and accurate data insights. This meant aversion of any major issues within the prison service including managing staff sickness, avoiding a disastrous impact on the already shortage of prison offices and avoiding outbreaks within prisons.