Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013 7.3.10. Staff In the most of visited hospitals the indicator of the employment matched with applicable regulations, according to information of directors of institutions. Improperly they were fulfilling the duty of ensuring the determined staffing level, only in one of institutions280. However in the assessment of NPM experts, at some institutions, in order to guarantee adequate medical and therapeutic facilities for patients, it is necessary to recruit the additional psychologist281, or to increase the assessment of the work of the psychologist at the court-psychiatric ward282. From similar considerations, increasing the cast of the medical staff during duty as well as increasing the assessment to the work of the occupational therapist on the branch was recommended283. At some hospitals employees were missing about the determined sex e.g. of male nurses at ward intended for men284. In the assessment of the NMP representatives, not-employing the staff of the same sex at the ward intended exclusively for the determined sex, is threatening the right of patients to the privacy. 8. Reinspections Reacting to the report of representatives of the Mechanism is a duty of authorities of every visited institution, by taking a stance and referring to all recommendations issued as a result of the visit of inspection. Reinspections are one of forms of monitoring the way and the state of implementing recommendations, in the course of which KMP representatives are checking, whether official information passed on to them in writing correspond to the actual situation on the spot, and whether recommended means or action were taken. During this procedure the representatives are also asking employees of the institution and imprisoned persons, whether any sanctions and consequences didn’t meet them on the part of authorities or officers, since they agreed to talk with visiting persons (such a guarantee is included in Art. 21 of OPCAT). In 2013 the representatives of the NMP conducted reinspections of two institutions: Social Care Centre in Góra Kalwarii and Juvenile Detention Centre in Białystok. Hospital in Lubliniec. Hospital in: Dębica, Gniezno. 282 Hospital in Lublin. 283 Hospital in: Lublin, Branice. 284 Hospital in Radecznica. 280 281 80