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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.
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