Psychiatric hospitals The documents made available to the visiting team by the management of individual hospitals, including plans for trainings of their subordinate staff, usually demonstrated that trainings carried out in 2011 and 2012 were comprehensive in terms of their scope and type. In two299 of the visited establishments300 the NPM representatives noted the lack of specialist trainings for all or a part of the staff within the last several years, inter alia, in the area of patients’ rights, rights of the child, application of coercive measures, preventing professional burnout, interpersonal communication or therapeutic and rehabilitation activities. Public Health Care Centre in Łuków, Voivodeship Hospital for Neurotic and Psychiatric Patients in Suchowola. 300 As emphasised by the CPT, bearing in mind the challenging nature of their work, it is of crucial importance that auxiliary staff be carefully selected and that they receive both appropriate training before taking up their duties and in-service courses. Further, during the performance of their tasks, they should be closely supervised by – and be subject to the authority of – qualified health-care Staff [Article 28 of the 8th General Report CPT/Inf (98)]. 299 107