Annual Report 2013 of the National Preventive Mechanism groups, so that they are rather leisure activities with a certain rehabilitating component. Accordingly, the profile of the workforce should be adjusted to assume the rehabilitating tasks and favour reinsertion in the community. It was also observed that the individual rehabilitation plan existed in all the clinical records reviewed, that it includes specific sections on the psychiatric, psychological medicine, nursing, social work and physiotherapy services, and that it is reviewed every 6 months, which should be pointed out as a quality indicator. Therapy room of the Residential Centre “Santa Teresa de Arévalo” Psychiatric assistance Psychiatric follow-up 148 204. In respect of psychiatric attention, in the review of clinical records carried out at the Healthcare Centre “El Pinar” (Teruel) it was observed that, although one psychiatrist of the Healthcare Service of ARAGON visits the centre every 15 days, patients are lacking a psychiatric record, in many cases have not been diagnosed and their evolution cannot be traced, which was conveyed to the Department of Healthcare, Social welfare and Family of the General Deputation of Aragon. Said department stated that, since the centre was reconverted into a resource for dependent persons with a mental disability, it is unnecessary for psychiatric records to be kept. In the opinion of this Institution, since a large number of patients were admitted with a psychiatric pathology and the long period of their stay appears to render it advisable for them to be transferred to another centre more adequate to their profile, due to the destabilisation this could cause them, it is necessary to put in place alternative measures to provide them with the best attention. Accordingly, two suggestions were made for patients admitted with a psychiatric pathology to be re-evaluated, diagnosed and have an individual therapeutic plan prepared and to include medical records in a psychiatric attention folder, for the benefit of the patients, and to afford greater transparency and control over the quality of the attention. At the Residential Centre “Santa Teresa de Arévalo” it was verified that the psychiatric follow-ups of patients were variable, depending on

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