Working Groups have  been  started on the following topics:

A Restraint and Coercive methods in long term nursing care and hospitals

Rosemary Smyth (Mental health commission Republic  of Ireland),  Krist Debruyn (Zorginspectie Flanders)  Thijs Melchior and  Anja Jonkers (IGZ Netherlands) , Eve Pilt(Terviseamet, Estonia), Marjolein van Vliet (VILANS),  Dirk Meijer and Jooske Vos (EPSO).

State of affairs at the time of the conference in Copenhagen

As a follow up on the EPSO working group on ‘Restraints and Coercive methods in long term nursing care and hospitals’ and the draft of an ‘Assessment and Evaluation Framework’ which could be used by the various EPSO Member countries to reduce the use of force and improve care in the area of restraints and coercive methods .
The  Framework aims for better care and less unnecessary force by giving people more say in decisions about their own life and by doing so reducing unnecessary restraints, unnecessary violence (force) and unnecessary restrictions of freedom in healthcare- and other institutions.
The idea of the working group is that supervisory bodies can learn and improve by using best practices and comparing their own working methods with relevant experiences in other States/Regions and with relevant norms and accepted standards.
The draft  Framework that was  discussed in Brussels is based on best practices and working methods in various EPSO Member States and is related to the basic Human Rights approach used by the Council of Europe’s CPT (“European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment”) in the area of restraints and coercive methods in healthcare and restricted care.

If one or more countries are interested in hosting a pilot on the topic of preventing restraints and coercive methods in healthcare or social care,   the  pilot will be launched In Copenhagen. Host countries are being asked to participate and possibly also to  invest in the costs of the pilot. The pilot will test the aims of the Framework in practice: What are the possibilities for the use of an assessment framework in the various  countries?

If a host country will not be found immediately the working group will continue to work on a presentable framework and prepare  the presentation of the framework to the various EPSO countries, possibly including a  presentation to government  representative in the various countries.
In this case the working group will give an update of the state of affairs.
 

B Complaints: - Participants: Flanders Gerda Schotte /Norway Aud Nordal /Germany Katja Peeters  observer)  /  Finland Katia Kayhko/Kirsti Kotiniemi /  Lituania Ramune Navickiene (np) / Estonia Mihhail Muzotsin/ Northern Ireland  Theresa Nixon/ Sweden Katarina Lagerstedt (np) / Slovenia Eva Kompan ( np) / France ( Charles Bruneau (np)  / Netherland Paul Robben and EPSO Jooske Vos Presentations:  - Stef van Eekert ( Flanders inspectorate) /  Sabine De Brabanter and Marielle Maes  ( rusthuisinfofoon ) Chair: Krist Debruyn Flanders =

np= not present in Brussels

C Methods of Inspection

Chair : Savio Toson 

Participants: England , Norway

D Clinical Indicators  -- Participants:

                                  The Netherlands and England (Richard Hamblin, Paul Long)

                                  Chair: Jan Vesseur

E Taxonomy of terminology/definitions/language for regulation 

                                 - Charles Bruneau

F Patient Safety  Sandra Eismann England

Supported by EURinSPECT

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If a host country will not be found immediately the working group will continue to work on a presentable framework and prepare  the presentation of the framework to the various EPSO countries, possibly including a  presentation to government  representative in the various countries.
In this case the working group will give an update of the state of affairs.