78 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Health information During a monitoring visit, the monitoring team may also look into issues which are not related to our focus points or annual themes if there is a specific reason for doing so. In 2013, for instance, we started gathering information about the forms used in local prisons when inmates give their consent to information about their health being passed on to other institutions. Our monitoring teams had become aware that the forms differed widely; and there were doubts whether the forms were in compliance with the law. After having gathered various forms, the Ombudsman took up the issue in 2014 during one of our regular meetings with the Department of Prisons and Probation. The Department will now prepare a standard form which is in accordance with the law. Sometimes it is necessary to seek an amendment to an Act in order to solve problems which are revealed during monitoring visits. For instance, during visits to psychiatric wards, the Ombudsman uncovered a problem for underage patients which we have subsequently discussed with the Ministry of Health: The legal protection guarantees of the act on coercion in psychiatry do not apply to underage psychiatric patients if their parents have given their consent that force may be used in connection with treatment of their disorder. They are, for instance, unable to complain about being subjected to forced treatment. The Ministry of Health has promised to introduce a bill to give these patients better legal protection. The reorganisation of the Ombudsman’s monitoring activities is described in detail in ‘Report on the Monitoring Activities Carried out by the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman’. The report is used as a daily working tool in connection with our monitoring visits. It is available in Danish at www.ombudsmanden.dk. An English version will follow at a later date.