44 Mental health care institutions University Hospital of Northern Norway health trust (UNN) 26-28 April 2016 The psychiatric department of UNN is located at Åsgard in Tromsø. The NPM visited the emergency psychiatric section and the secure psychiatric section, and the following five units were visited: emergency ward North, emergency ward South, emergency ward Tromsø, the psychosis and substance abuse unit, and the secure psychiatric inpatient unit. University Hospital of Northern Norway health trust (UNN) NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Main findings The physical conditions in the secure psychiatric section appeared to be good, and the patients in the rehabilitation unit who had agreements to this effect could go outside unaccompanied. The emergency psychiatric section was in relatively poor physical condition. With the exception of emergency ward Tromsø, none of these units had direct access to areas where the patients could go outside unaccompanied. In emergency ward North, there were no curtains that could be drawn over the windows of the patient rooms.