The NPM will continue to monitor the situation in Prisons through its close cooperation with the competent Ministry and the Prisons Department. 3. Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital: After years of delays and bureaucratic inefficiencies, the process of deinstitutionalisation of 8 individuals hospitalised in Ward 14 of the Psychiatric Hospital has been completed. Today, these individuals live in independent residences of the Ayios Christoforos Home, where living conditions are clearly improved. The Mechanism will continue to monitor both the conditions in the Psychiatric Hospital and the conditions in the independent residences in order to safeguard the rights of people living there and provide every possible assistance to achieve their successful deinstitutionalisation in the sense of them living independently and enjoying their rights. E. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Contacts with the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) In late 2015, the Mechanism had close and regular contacts with the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) in the preparation of their visit to Cyprus in January 2016. In this context, an overall assessment was carried out of the work made by the Mechanism and the conditions under which it operates. A key tool in the aforementioned assessment was the “ΝPM Self-Assessment Tool”, which was completed and sent to the said Subcommittee for their information before their arrival. 14