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A man on remand at Forest Bank prison in Salford died aged 50 from septicaemia. Russell West - who had been in prison before and was said to have had a history of using illegal drugs behind bars - had his spleen removed in 2003.
A coroner recorded a verdict that he died of natural causes following an inquest, but the prisons watchdog has now told Forest Bank to comply with a series of recommendations concerning inmates with no spleen.
A now published report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO), which investigates deaths in custody, revealed a clinical reviewer 'was not satisfied that healthcare staff understood the needs of a prisoner who had undergone a splenectomy and that Mr West was at an increased risk of developing a serious infection' because of it.
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Healthcare staff at the prison, added the report, 'did not recognise the importance of the need to establish if Mr West had been fully vaccinated and if he was taking prophylactic antibiotics'.
The body's spleen fights infections, with anyone having a splenectomy open to an increased risk of severe infection for life.
The report said: "The clinical reviewer found that while Mr West was offered and refused vaccinations when he arrived at Forest Bank, there is no evidence that healthcare staff investigated if he was fully vaccinated in accordance with NHS England recommendations. Mr West was not prescribed prophylactic antibiotics at Forest Bank.
"Healthcare staff did not recognise the importance of the need to establish if Mr West had been fully vaccinated and if he was taking prophylactic antibiotics. The clinical reviewer concluded that Mr West's
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