• record the particularities relevant to the placement and further treatment of the sentenced person, in particular: disability, whether the sentenced person smokes, possible danger or disturbance to other sentenced persons, danger from other sentenced persons, adjustment problems, need for an interview with a psychologist or other counsellor, social problems; • obtain a statement from the convicted person as to whom the institution should inform in the event of his/her hospitalisation or death.145 On the doctor's referral, the prison allows the sentenced person to receive treatment or a medical examination from a health care provider outside the prison. The doctor refers the sentenced person for treatment or examination to the nearest hospitals or medical establishments, unless they consider it necessary to refer the person to a specific medical establishment. A convicted person in (an acute) need of psychiatric treatment is referred to the Forensic Psychiatry Unit of the University Medical Centre in Maribor.146 However, according to the interviewed judge, these referrals to other institutions are short term and the person is then transferred back to the prison.147 This was also confirmed by an interviewed psychiatrist, meaning that the same prisoners can be transferred back and forth between the prison and the forensic psychiatry unit several times.148 The National Preventive Mechanism at the Human Rights Ombudsman (NPM) performs regular visits of to the Slovenian prisons, including the pre-trial detention facilities. The NPM often receives prisoners’ complaints concerning the availability of a psychiatrist, for example that the psychiatrist is not present in prison for a sufficient amount of time and that prisoners have to wait too long for psychiatric help.149 Namely, psychiatrist providing psychiatric care are not employed by prisons but work within the public health network and the prisons conclude agreements with public health care institutions that they will provide psychiatric care. The frequency of the psychiatrists’ presence in a prison varies from institution to institution. Sometimes practical issues such as sick leave of the 145 Article 9 of the Rules on the implementation of prison sentences (Pravilnik o izvrševanju kazni zapora), 17 July 2019. 146 Article 38 of the Rules on the implementation of prison sentences (Pravilnik o izvrševanju kazni zapora), 17 July 2019. 147 Interview with a judge. 148 Interviews with psychiatrists. 149 Varuh človekovih pravic (2019), Letno poročilo Državnega preventivnega mehanizma za leto 2018, Ljubljana, Varuh človekovih pravic, pp. 164, 172. 48