2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE Follow-Up Inspections The follow-up on the implementation of recommendations issued to the responsible authorities is a very important aspect of the national prevention of torture, which allows identifying the specific actions taken by an institution to implement those recommendations and whether they were implemented successfully. recommendations were implemented in full and in part respectfully, while 50 ones were not implemented at all. MENTAL INSTITUTION During the reporting period, one follow-up inspection was carried out at the Mental Clinic (hereinafter referred to as “the Clinic”) of the pub­lic establishment Republican Šiauliai Hospital. During the 2014 visit at the Clinic, 14 recommendations had been issued. To implement these recommendations, the Director of Šiauliai Hospital set up a working group which analysed the Seimas Ombudsmen’s conclusions and drew up a plan for the implementation of those recommendations that was submitted to the Seimas Ombudsmen’s Office. It is noteworthy that some of the Seimas Ombudsmen’s recommendations were implemented in full or in part, and a dialogue was continuing on those ones that were left unimplemented. With a view to implementing the provided recommendations, the responsible authorities must take appropriate actions, while the Seimas Ombudsmen supervise the implementation of these recommendations. During this process the institution conducting the prevention of torture monitors the information on measures taken by the responsible authorities according to recommendations provided to them, and in different ways also actively keeps promoting the appropriate implementation of its recommendations. Follow-up inspections are one of the most effective measures to control the implementation of recommendations. These inspections are aimed at finding out the results of implementation of the Seimas Ombudsmen’s recommendations and evaluating the information provided by an institution on site. The follow-up visit has found that of the 14 recommendations made by the Seimas Ombudsmen nearly all of them have been implemented: 12 recommendations have been fully implemented, and two ones have been implemented in part. In 2016, the Seimas Ombudsmen conducted a total of 17 (seventeen) follow-up inspections at different places of detention. Follow-up visits were held to 10 (ten) adult social care institutions, 3 (three) to imprisonment institutions, 2 (two) to police stations and one to each of a mental hospital and a foreigners’ detention facility. These inspections evaluated how the heads of the institutions had implemented 231 recommendations provided to them. Of this number, 140 and 41 The follow-up visit has established that the human rights situation at the Mental Clinic of the public establishment Republican Šiauliai Hospital has improved, as the following recommendations have been implemented: forcibly hospitalised persons are, against signature, informed of a court hearing that will decide the issue of their forced 26