Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 representatives of the Mechanism recommended to eliminate immediately. For example, after one of the patients hurt himself using the elements of the radio set, all patients were prohibited from having their own radio sets, or all patients were banned from going out for walks after one of them escaped several days earlier253. Another example is the ban on going for a walk for a week imposed on all patients from the ward after one of them infringed the applicable regulations of the ward254. The representatives of the Mechanism are of the opinion that the patients in hospitals should be assessed and motivated to actively participate in various activities255. However, some establishments had no system of assessing and rewarding the patients for their progress. 5.  Right of access to information All visited hospitals followed the rule that a nurse informed the newly admitted patient about the patients’ rights in the admission room. Only one hospital256 drew up a brochure setting out its routine257. With one exception258, the regulations, daily agenda and other important organisational information were presented in places available to all patients in the wards of the visited hospitals, although only one establishment provided complete information to its patients259. The representatives of the Mechanism recommended adding contact details of institutions protecting human rights, such as the Human Rights Defender, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the penitentiary judge and the family judge, to the information boards. The employees of the NPM had some reservations concerning the ensuring of patients’ right of access to information in the internal regulations and other normative acts drawn up by the establishments. Very few hospitals clearly defined and formulated the patients’ rights and obligation in an easily understandable way in their documents. A part of analysed regulations required correction or specifi Regional Forensic Psychiatry Centre in Gostynin, Public Health Care Centre in Łuków Dr Józef Babiński Specialist Psychiatric Hospital Health Care Centre in Łódź. 255 See also: Ordinance of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of 20 October 1995 on the organisation of rehabilitation activities in psychiatric hospitals and rewarding the participants of the activities (Dz. U. No 127, item 614). Became ineffective on 12 February 2013. 256 Voivodeship Hospital for Neurotic and Psychiatric Patients in Lubiąż. 257 The CPT emphasizes that an introductory brochure setting out the establishment’s routine and patients’ rights should be issued to each patient on admission, as well as to their families. Any patients unable to understand this brochure should receive appropriate assistance [§ 53 of the 8th General Report CPT/Inf (98)]. 258 Public Health Care Centre in Łuków 259 Autonomous Public Voivodeship Hospital in Gorzów Wielkopolski 253 254 98