National Preventive Mechanism Eighth Annual Report 2016–17 The NPM continued to enjoy a constructive relationship with the Association for Prevention of Torture (APT), which has provided helpful advice to the NPM on a number of topics. In turn, the UK NPM has shared its expertise with the APT through a number of projects and events. The UK NPM was featured in the APT’s Putting prevention into practice, published for the 10th anniversary of the entry into force in 2006.149 MWCS attended the APT’s Jean-Jacques Gautier Symposium on monitoring of psychiatric institutions in Geneva in September 2016. MWCS’ participation included a presentation by MWCS’ engagement officer discussing his personal experience of restrictions when he was detained in hospital.150 In September 2016, the NPM coordinator spoke at the launch of the APT’s new publication Does Torture Prevention Work?.151 In October 2016, the NPM coordinator attended a one-day roundtable with other NPMs convened by Open Society Foundations Justice Initiative and Bristol University to discuss the implications of counter-terrorism measures upon the mandate of NPMs and of the SPT. The UK NPM was pleased to have the opportunity to meet and share experiences with other NPMs at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)/ Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR) and the APT ‘Annual meeting of NPMs from the OSCE region’ in October 2016. NPM members also continued to exchange their experience with bodies from around the world who were interested in OPCAT implementation and detention monitoring. • CQC hosted a delegation from Japan of the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Institute of Mental Health, who were carrying out government-commissioned research on Japan’s mental health policy. Models of monitoring (and of second opinion safeguards) were considered by the delegation in their report to the Japanese government. In addition, CQC officers were released to work with the Council of Europe in 2016–17 on a consultation on the development of a quality assurance process for prison health care services and mental health services within the Republic of Georgia. This involved participation in two consultation events in Georgia and CQC hosted the Georgian delegation by return. The aim is to build a strengthened model of monitoring psychiatric detention in Georgia. 149. Association for the Prevention of Torture, 2016, Putting prevention into practice, 10 years on: the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture, http://apt.ch/en/resources/putting-prevention-into-practice-opcat-10-anniversary-booklet2016/?cat=60 [accessed 13/11/17]. 150. See the outcome report of this symposium here: http://apt.ch/en/2016-monitoring-of-psychiatric-institutions/ [accessed 13/11/17]. 151. The publication is the result of four years of independent research led by Dr Richard Carver, Oxford Brookes University, and Dr Lisa Handley, USA. More information about this work can be found on the Association for the Prevention of Torture’s website, http://www.apt.ch/en/resources/yes-torture-prevention-works-insights-from-a-global-research-study-on-30years-of-torture-prevention/?cat=59 [accessed 13/11/17]. 70