- 105 comments - few members of the Administrative Boards of the psychiatric institutions visited belonged to the medical profession (paragraph 216); - the CPT cannot overstate the importance of ensuring that all decisions relating to treatment policy and practice are preceded by close consultation with the medical and nursing authorities of the establishment concerned and ultimately rest with a body comprising suitably qualified individuals (paragraph 216). requests for information - confirmation of the assignment, as from 29 March 1993, of a team consisting, on a full-time basis, of 2 qualified nurses, 1 physiotherapist, 1 occupational therapist and 1 psychologist as well as, on a part-time basis, of 1 psychiatrist, 1 neurologist and 1 social worker, to the Hospital for children with special needs at Leros, for the purpose of implementing a Community-financed programme (paragraph 208); - information on the proportion of staff at the Attica State Mental Hospital for children assigned to external child guidance centres rather than to care of hospital patients (paragraph 209); - the extent to which the 1992 Act on the modernisation and organisation of the health system will be applied to patients hospitalised before its entry into force and, more generally, whether there is a procedure for the review at appropriate intervals of placements lasting longer than six months (paragraph 222); - comments of the Greek authorities on the statements heard according to which the courts tend automatically to order the continued hospitalisation of a patient confined under section 69 of the Penal Code, even where a medical opinion certifies that there is no further need for that measure and that the patient no longer shows symptoms of mental illness or dangerousness (paragraph 223). 3. Patients' living conditions recommendations - the large-capacity dormitories to be progressively replaced by small accommodation structures (paragraph 229); - all patients, and a fortiori those permanently bedridden, to have a living area with adequate ventilation and lighting (paragraph 229); - all living areas to be put into a good state of repair (paragraph 229); - material conditions to be improved in such a way as to provide a varied therapeutic environment for patients (personal possessions, bedside tables, wardrobes, day rooms, etc.) (paragraph 229); - the requisite steps to be taken to remedy the deficiencies observed as regards the clothing and bedding supplied to patients (paragraph 230);