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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