Prison healthcare contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most prison healthcare contracts took 39% of them (20 of 52).
• The median contract, £634k, is 6 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
• East Midlands had the most contracts: 19, or 37% of the total.

1. 1NHS England19 contracts£690m
2. 2Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust16 contracts£2.3m
3. 3Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust8 contracts£11.2m
4. 4Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board3 contracts£5.8m
5. 5Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£126k
6. 6Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust1 contract£415k
7. 7NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership1 contract£70k
8. 8Swansea Bay University Health Board1 contract£70k
9. 9Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust1 contract£30k

1. 1Practice Plus Group6 contracts£354m
2. 2Premier Physical Healthcare Limited5 contracts£314k
3. 3HCRG Care Group3 contracts£118m
4. 4Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£69.2m
5. 5Forensic Eyecare Limited3 contracts£152k
6. 6Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£39.8m
7. 7Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£20.0m
8. 8the prison opticians company2 contracts£393k
9. 9Hepatitis C Trust2 contracts£18k
10. 10Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust1 contract£100m

Latest

• Market Engagement Event HMP Healthcare services for Lot 1) Brixton & Lot 2) Feltham A & B (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £67.0m

  NHS England to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Practice Plus Group · Awarded 16 September 2026

• Psychosocial Substance Misuse (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.9m

  Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board to supplier not published · Awarded 15 September 2026

• HMP Brixton Healthcare Services - Direct Award C (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £9.8m

  NHS England to Practice Plus Group · Awarded 13 August 2026

• HMP Wandsworth - GP Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £3.1m

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to South London Prison Service LLP · Awarded 1 July 2026

• NHSE1094 - Healthcare Services for the Yorkshire and Humber Female Secure Estate (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £38.0m

  NHS England to Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 3 June 2026

• HMP Wandsworth - Counselling (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.7m

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to Atrium Clinic · Awarded 1 June 2026

• HMP Wandsworth - Integrated Addiction & Substance Misuse Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.4m

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to Change Grow Live · Awarded 1 June 2026

• HMP Wandsworth - Optometry Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £323k

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to the prison opticians company · Awarded 1 June 2026

• HMP Wandsworth - Physio Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £157k

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to Premier Physical Healthcare Limited · Awarded 1 June 2026

Largest

• NHSE942 - South Yorkshire Male Prisons - Primary Care (including Substance Misuse) and Mental Health (Including Learning Disability and Autism) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £141m

  NHS England to Practice Plus Group · Awarded 21 January 2026

• NHSE1068 - Primary Care & MH Services for West Yorkshire Adult Male Prisons (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £122m

  NHS England to Practice Plus Group · Awarded 13 December 2025

• Provision of Integrated Healthcare Services in Norfolk prisons and Non- Custodial Service in Norfolk and Suffolk (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £104m

  NHS England to HCRG Care Group and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 27 October 2025

• Primary Care service provision into HMP Wandsworth (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £100m

  NHS England to Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 20 February 2026

Integrated or single-service healthcare for people in prisons, young offender institutions and the secure estate: GP, sexual health, pharmacy, mental health and other clinical services.

• Prison GP services
• Sexual health services in prisons
• Prison pharmacy and medicines management
• Healthcare for the women's secure estate

• Police custody healthcare (hlt.justice.police-custody-healthcare)
• Secure mental health hospital beds (hlt.mh.inpatient-secure-beds)
• Prison and detention operation and escorting (sec.custody.contracted-prison-operation, sec.custody.immigration-detention-and-escorting)
• Prison education (edu.adult.prison-education-contracts)

• ADHD assessment
• Mri scanners