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Complaints procedures and outside intervention
recommendations
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the requisite measures to be taken to enable patients to lodge complaints with a clearly
designated body, and to have confidential access to a competent authority; these measures to
include the provision of information to patients on the possibility of making a complaint
(paragraph 257);
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an introductory brochure setting forth the hospital routine and patients' rights to be devised
and issued to each patient on admission; any patient unable to understand this brochure to
have the assistance of a counsellor (paragraph 258);
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the possibility of introducing a system of regular visits to psychiatric institutions by an
independent outside body to be explored (paragraph 259);
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appropriate measures to be taken to ensure greater involvement by independent persons and
bodies in the affairs of psychiatric institutions in Greece (paragraph 260).
requests for information
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information on the operation in practice of the mechanism created by section 52 of the 1992
Act (paragraph 259).
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