Great train robber Ronnie Biggs will receive medical care at the hospital wing at the top securty Belmarsh prison in south east London.

Biggs has suffered three strokes. He is partially paralysed, and cannot speak properly.

He will require expert care at the prison's medical unit, a three-storey building within the prison grounds.

Biggs will be held either on a general ward or an individual cell within the medical unit.

He will follow roughly the same regime as other inmates.

Typical weekday

Typical weekdays begin at 8.40am when the cells are unlocked for breakfast.

At 9.30am inmates are allowed to carry out work, go to the gym or receive visitors before returning to their cells at 11.30am.

At 1.45pm the cells are unlocked again for lunch before another work or gym session at 2.15pm.

At 5pm, inmates return to their cells once more before the dinnertime unlock at 5.45pm. At 6.45pm inmates are allowed social time before returning to their cells at 8.30pm where they remain under lock and key until the morning.

If Biggs suffers another stroke he will be first treated in the hospital wing which has both in-patient and out-patient departments, and a purpose-built therapy unit.

Transfer

A prison service spokeswoman said: "Barring emergencies inmates are treated in the hospital wing, but if they have to be moved to a general hospital the prison has a very good relationship with Oxleas Health Authority."

Biggs would most likely be treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich.

The Belmarsh in-patient department has 38 beds, most of which are used to treat patients with psychiatric problems.

There is an intensive care suite, and a special observation room - both of which can cater for just one patient at a time.

All cells on the hospital wing have integral sanitation facilities.

Psychiatric care and routine primary care of the sort found at a GP surgery are contracted in from local NHS providers.

Primary care available at the unit includes GP and nurse-led clinics offering treatment for conditions such as asthma and diabetes. A well-man clinic is also offered as routine for all new prisoners.

The hospital is headed by an in-patient clinical manager.

Nurses work along side health care officers, who are prison officers trained to provide basic nursing.