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COVID-19 presents the first challenge to Australia's National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and its OPCAT obligations. While the NPM obligations do not formally commence until 2022, the Commonwealth Ombudsman's NPM role

“When is it OK to punish patients?”I’ll never forget when a social worker, from a psychiatric unit, asked me this. I was providing training.Of course, the short answer is NEVER.

In the rapidly changing context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we would like to provide some updates on how the UK NPM is approaching the crisis and taking forward our