The Ministry of Health agreed with the NPM’s opinion that the current situation was unsuitable, although dealing with patients at great risk of injury and for whom special protection measures should be used. The Ministry was pleased to learn from the management of the hospital that suitable beds, which can be lowered, would be purchased by the end of 2016. We recommended to Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital that the staff speak to patients before accommodating them with a mattress on the floor (until finding a more suitable and dignified solution), once it is (already) clear to them why they had to be accommodated there. The response of the management is provided under the previous recommendation above. We recommended that Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital update information on the notice board in the male admission ward, including the menu. We also repeated the recommendation from 2012 to place (an empty) form C-1 on the notice board. Patients staying in the ward on the basis of their own consent should be given a copy of their statement when giving consent. In their response to the preliminary report, the management of Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital stated that the menu had been placed on the door of the dining room. An empty C1 form had been posted on notice boards. The management also considered the possibility of placing displays with all information in secure wards. They particularly emphasised that a copy of the C1 statement would be given to patients. We recommended that Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital replace defective equipment (e.g. headphones), possibly such that replacing defective parts would be easier and more cost-efficient for the hospital. This particularly applies to equipment which is important for calming down patients, which actively contributes to treatment and enables qualitative spending of their free time. In their response to the preliminary report, the management of Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital stated that patients had received new headphones for listening music via computer, whereby they were enabled more qualitative spending of free time. We recommended that Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital allow patients who want to wear their own daytime clothes, and which would not present a risk to themselves or others, to do so, whereby the washing of these clothes would be ensured by their relatives or could be done in the hospital (e.g. as part of occupational therapy). In their response to the preliminary report, the management of Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital explained that they encouraged patients to wear their own clothes. However, some patients have no relatives or they do not visit, in which case the hospital provides them with tracksuits suitable for different seasons of the year. In the case of the intensive geriatric ward, the hospital stated that it was generally inappropriate and unsuitable for patients to be wearing their own clothes, because this did not enable suitable medical care and also increased hygienic risk (e.g. incontinent dementia patients). The management said they would further encourage patients to wear their own clothes in intensive and secure wards. We recommended that Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital also provide day clothes for plus-size female patients, i.e. larger clothes. We believe that female patients who stand out from the average, e.g. due to their size, are already bullied and pushed aside, which is why Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital must make an effort to offer them the same possibilities as other female patients. In their response to the preliminary report, the management of Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital stated that they provided all sizes of pyjamas, tracksuits and T-shirts, also for plus-size patients. We recommended that, if an employee is absent for a long time from a ward (such as the absence of an occupational therapist on the geriatric ward), Ljubljana University Psychiatric Hospital ensure 74 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2016 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT