1.6 Visit to the Idrija psychiatric hospital It is recommended that the hospital puts the leaflet on Mental Health Act on bulletin boards of every unit. It is noteworthy that this recommendation of the NPM will be taken into account by the hospital. It was proposed by the NPM that the hospital updates the leaflet on the rights of the patients in the special surveillance units and controlled treatment with information on the address of the Advocate of Patient Rights. It is noteworthy that this recommendation of the NPM will be taken into account by the hospital. It was proposed by the NPM that the hospital studies the possibilities for ensuring at least a partial privacy for visits in the common area (at least) for those patients and their visitors, who wish so, by using folding screens in places where they would not disturb the life in the unit. The hospital responded to the NPM recommendation that they try to provide their patients with broad possibilities of spending time with their relatives. Time limits of the visits are rare, except when a diagnostic therapeutic treatment programme is in course. High patient satisfaction regarding the possibility of contact with their relatives is also confirmed by the results of the quality indicator level of the patients’ satisfaction which is monitored since 2004. The possibility of contacts with relatives has been relatively highly marked (4.63 in 2011 and 4.52 in 2012). During the visits, the patients can stay in their rooms, living area or in the near or broader surroundings of the hospital. There are renovation works in progress in the hospital’s premisses where a room for patients and their relatives will be available. Visits in units under special surveillance rarely take place simultaneously. The main reasons are the distance from the patient’s place of living, work obligations of the relatives, the nature of the disease and a weak social network of the patients. When patients living in the same room have visitors at the same time, they agree individually on where the visit will take place. The doctor specialised in psychiatry allows the patients in the strict surveillance units to go outside the hospital accompanied by their relatives. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2013 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 133