Correctional institutions The NPM therefore recommended maintaining medical histories centrally so that all specialist services have access to all information on the detainees at all times. In addition, sufficient memory shall be provided for the documentation so that the statements of opinion from the psychological service in particular do not have to be stored on external data carriers. The Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice followed this recommendation and established a working group to address the question of how to set up repositories and access rights (for all specialist services) in the Electronic Patient Record Module or on secure drives while observing special professional confidentiality obligations, thus enabling all specialist services to access information. Nationwide regulation The working group was able to agree on a uniform drive. Personal data, which cannot be saved in the Electronic Patient Record Module for technical reasons, shall be stored in this structure. The drives guarantee data security. The management of the institution grants access rights to the respective drives such that multi-professionalism can be taken account of in the interest of the prison administration and the employees have all of the information at their disposal that is required for fulfilling their tasks properly. The transfer deadline to the relevant drives expired in mid-April 2019. Uniform drive XX  The specialist services shall be granted access rights to the documentation in order to facilitate adequate treatment and care. To this end, the technical conditions shall be created while maintaining data security. Quality criteria for psychotherapists On a positive note, the prison administration provides sufficient funding for external psychotherapy for mentally ill offenders in detention at Graz-Karlau correction institution. Graz-Karlau correctional institution However, the fact that not only psychotherapists with specific forensic qualifications are deployed in detention for mentally ill offenders is seen as critical. A regulation that applies nationwide for the quality and recruitment of psychotherapists who work for the judiciary (in particular in the detention of mentally ill offenders) should be specified. No selection criteria With regard to the therapy programme, the NPM missed a clear allocation based on the indication of specific disorders. There is no differentiation by schools of psychotherapy. In the sense of the “customisation options” (Federal Constitutional Court 2 BvR 2356/09 = EuGRZ 2011 – European Basic Rights Magazine, pp. 297 et seq.), the formulation of a written regulation was thus recommended for determining which therapist with which qualifications should be deployed for which types of detainee disorder. Working group set up 122

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