Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
Corridor in the unit for acute illnesses, Puerto Real Hospital (Cádiz)
Nuestra Señora
de la Montaña
Hospital
(Cáceres)
Like in the previous case, the Hospitalisation Unit for the Mentally Ill,
Nuestra Señora de la Montaña Hospital (Cáceres) provides short-term
treatment to patients with acute mental health disorders. They both have
basically on therapeutic mission, evaluating and intervening in acute episodes
of mental disorders unable to be resolved in a walk-in clinic.
In general, the facilities visited fulfilled the regulations applicable to this type of
establishment, as well as most of the criteria gathered in the NPM annual
reports, although there is room for improvement in certain matters. Below we
describe examples of good practice and points to be addressed at the
inspected facilities.
Patients
committed
further to a court
order
§314 and 315
AR 2014
100
152. As regards the documentation included in each inmate’s individual
file, held by the facility, it was ascertained that sometimes certain relevant
documents were missing. Thus, at the Balcó de la Safor facility (Valencia),
although all the files included the court order authorising a continuation of
commitment, there were many files that lacked the necessary medical reports
that should be attached to the six-monthly reports to the court, or the judicial
resolution ordering the committal itself; some even lacked the relevant
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