Annual Report 2013 of the National Preventive Mechanism centres. In respect of CP Puerto III (Cádiz), the SGIP reported that the observations of this Institution were accepted and, accordingly, the appropriate instructions had been given to the management of the CP. 106 The duration of regimental restrictions should be shortened 121. In more than 20% of the cases in which article 75.2 RP was applied in the year before the visit to CP Puerto I (Cádiz), its duration exceeded 3 months, reaching 6 months in one case and 7 months in another. This measure, although it seeks to protect the inmates, is in any case exceptional and involves regimental restrictions, so that the necessary steps should be taken to reduce its duration, along the lines mentioned in paragraph 111 of Annual Report 2012. Medical action in cases of injuries, coercive means and isolation punishment 122. The medical action in the case of injuries, application of coercive measures or serving of the isolation penalties is also reviewed at the visits. As regards such action in the application of coercive measures, regardless of whether or not the medical practitioners act in accordance with the provisions of law and of regulation in force, in the opinion of this Institution, they should play a more active role, particularly when applying mechanical restraints, to verify whether the reasons for which it was adopted remain or have ceased, for the duration of the measure to be only the minimum time necessary, and to supervise the conditions in which it is implemented (state of the cell, of the bed, basic conditions of hygiene...), and use of concomitant medication. All the above forms part of the functions pertaining to medical personnel of CPs, from the point of view of protection of the health of the inmates and participation in the surveillance of the conditions in which coercive measures are applied. In addition, such actions should be recorded in forms established for the purpose to be completed after the regular medical checks, without prejudice to the fact that they may also be stated in the clinical record. Recommendation accepted to improve medical participation in the application of mechanical restraint measures at the CP for men of Barcelona After the visit to the CP for men of Barcelona, a Recommendation was made to the Department of Justice of the Government of Catalonia for the necessary instructions to be given for the purpose. Said recommendation was accepted and, accordingly, taking advantage of the integration of the penitentiary healthcare services into the Health Department of the Government of Catalonia after January 2014, the protocols of action will be reviewed to improve the medical participation in the application of mechanical restraint measures. Medical exploration carried out through bar doors 123. At CP Villabona (Asturias), after the interviews held with the inmates, it was concluded that the medical exploration (including in certain cases auscultation) and the dispensation of medicines, in the case of provisional isolation or isolation punishment, is carried out through bar doors, without opening them, which should be limited to only those cases in which this is strictly necessary because founded suspicions exist of risk. The SGIP accepted the criterion of this Institution. Confidentiality between the medical practitioner and the patients Similarly, at CP Puerto I (Cádiz), certain interviewed inmates stated that occasionally ordinary medical consultations and medical checkups in the case of coercive measures and isolation penalty were made in the presence of officers. Although it is understood that in certain