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OVERVIEW OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM) ........................................... 7
1.1
Mandate .............................................................................................................................. 7
1.2
Monitoring and control visits in numbers ........................................................................... 8
1.3
Budget .................................................................................................................................. 10
1.4
Human resources ................................................................................................................ 11
1.4.1
Personnel ............................................................................................................ 11
1.4.2
Commissions ...................................................................................................... 11
1.4.3
Human Rights Advisory Council ......................................................................... 13
1.5
Procedure of control visits ................................................................................................... 15
1.6
Reports of the commissions ................................................................................................ 16
1.7
Report of the Human Rights Advisory Council .................................................................... 19
1.8
Further activities ................................................................................................................... 20
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................. 27
2.1
2.2
Retirement and nursing homes .......................................................................................... 27
2.1.1
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 27
2.1.2
System-related problem areas .......................................................................... 32
2.1.2.1
Medical care ...................................................................................... 32
2.1.2.2
Supply of medication ......................................................................... 33
2.1.2.3
Lack of staff during night shift............................................................ 35
2.1.3
Intolerable living conditions ................................................................................ 36
2.1.4
Positive findings .................................................................................................. 37
Hospitals and psychiatric institutions and facilities ............................................................ 38
2.2.1
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 38
2.2.2
System-related problem areas .......................................................................... 42
2.2.2.1
Evaluation of conditions for restrictions of freedom ......................... 42
2.2.2.2
Use of net beds in Austria is about to end ....................................... 43
2.2.2.3
Private security companies ................................................................ 44
2.2.2.4
Child and adolescent psychiatry in Austria – shortage in
the training of specialists ................................................................... 46
2.2.3
Improper placement of a long-time patient in a psychiatric facility
has been ended ............................................................................................ 49
2.2.4
Insufficient psychiatric beds................................................................................ 50
2.2.5
Physical restraint lasting several days ............................................................... 50
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