Emergency call system Patients’ safety is one of the elements of the protection of patient rights that deserves priority treatment. Therefore, it is subject to verification by the NMPT during every inspection visit to a psychiatric establishment. According to the NMPT, the role of an efficient and easily accessible emergency call system cannot be overestimated in that regard. It enables fast intervention of medical personnel in emergency situations when patients’ health is deteriorating. Emergency call buttons should be available in all rooms used by patients (bathrooms, bedrooms, safety rooms for patient isolation as a direct coercion measure, etc.). Emergency call systems are also of particular importance for persons with disabilities who, according to the requirements laid down in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities should be provided with broadly understood mobility measures to ensure that they can function freely, just like other patients without disabilities. The Regulation of the Minister of Health of 26 June 2012 on specific requirements to be met by premises and equipment of medical service provider85 does not require the installation in hospital wards of emergency call systems that can be accessed from patient rooms, bathrooms and other rooms used by patients. Nursing facilities Incapacitated persons may also be placed in nursing facilities and convalescent homes. Therefore, the NMPT decided to cover such institutions by the NMPT monitoring. Dz. U. of 2012, item 739. 85 54 PART III - situation in places of detention