156 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 27 January The Ombudsman approached the ATP and the Sup- The Ombudsman intervenes in case concerning physically restrained inmate plementary Pension Scheme Appeals Tribunal, etc. A man who had been declared unfit to serve a employment, and therefore had not had the op- prison sentence had for months been waiting at portunity to make a timely objection. (…) after receiving numerous complaints from people over 60 who told him that they had not received the ATP’s letters with calculations of their rate of Vestre State Prison for a space at a high security forensic psychiatric ward. His situation has been 4 February the subject of several articles in the press. The Delayed publication of criticism of health care professionals was very regrettable Ombudsman has just asked the Department of the Prison and Probation Service for a report on the course of events, including how often and for how long the man has been physically restrained. ... When a health care professional is criticised by the Disciplinary Board of the National Health Service for serious or repeated negligence, the criticism The conditions for psychiatric patients have been must be made public on the internet with, among chosen as a theme for the Ombudsman’s monitor- other things, the name of the health care profes- ing visits in 2014 with focus on, among other sional. The Ombudsman now criticises that some things, the use of force. decisions are not made public until as much as 18 months after the decision has been made. 30 January New Head of Intelligence Service to clarify statement about his staff’s freedom of speech The Ombudsman has asked the new Head of the 25 February New guidelines to ensure fitting care for dying babies following premature birth or abortion Security and Intelligence Service (PET) to elabo- All the country’s maternity wards have now been rate on statements made during an interview issued with guidelines on how the health care staff which was published on www.dr.dk/nyheder on shall give care to ‘live-born, inevitably dying babies’ 24 January 2014.  following extremely premature births or abortions, the Health and Medicines Authority informed the In the interview the Head of the Service stated Ombudsman who had raised the issue in the spring among other things that it is not acceptable for of 2011. the Service staff to go to the press about matters which should normally be resolved in-house. 11 March 3 February Ombudsman: All rules must be followed when dementia sufferers are kept indoors Ombudsman satisfied that the ATP resumes about 100 cases When a nursing home resident with dementia no The Labour Market Supplementary Pension longer understands for instance that she needs Scheme (ATP) now resumes about 100 cases in to put on shoes and a coat in winter, the nursing which seniors between 60 and 65 years of age home staff must protect her. One of the protective have maintained that they have not received the measures may be to put in a special door opener so ATP’s letters regarding their rate of employment. that the woman cannot go outside. Such measures The Ombudsman consequently discontinues his are an expression of care but it involves at the investigation. same time the use of force which requires both ... staff and municipality to live up to a number of