Monitoring activities that the planned new premises for the health service be set up quickly. Furthermore, the Commission suggested that health care provision could be coordinated more effectively through regular interaction between the physicians in charge. The Commission also recommended that measures be taken to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, in particular to ensure access to condoms, sterile injection equipment and information on communicable diseases. The Commission is also of the opinion that cell confinement times exceeding 20 hours per day are inappropriate. viii. Biel Regional Prison (BE)23 During its visit to the Biel Regional Prison in December, the Commission welcomed the implementation of Epidemic Act requirements such as the systematic medical interview upon admission and the preparation of medication by outpatient healthcare professionals. However, the Commission recommended that the outpatient healthcare professionals should spend more time on site. The inmate admission form should also be supplemented with gender-specific questions and all answers should be fully documented. The Commission sees an urgent need for action with regards to access to psychiatric care as well as to gynaecological, dental and ophthalmological care. c. Visits with focus on indefinite incarceration In the interests of assessing conditions of indefinite incarceration, the Commission visited the Etablissements de la plaine de l’Orbe (EPO) in the canton of Vaud and the Pöschwies correctional facility in the canton of Zurich in September and the Bostadel correctional facility in the canton of Zug in October. During these inspection visits, confidential discussions took place with inmates regarding their placement, the content of their correctional plans, their exit options as well as their somatic and psychiatric care. Letter to the Bern Cantonal Council regarding the NCPT’s inspection visit to the Biel Regional Prison on 17 December 2020. 23 Activity report NCPT 2020 17