Article 5X348 NHS trust to stop filming mental health patients in their bedrooms

NHS trust to stop filming mental health patients in their bedrooms

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David Batty
from World news | The Guardian on (#5X348)

Move comes after concerns about care of female victims of sexual abuse and assault at London hospital

An NHS trust has ended the use of a monitoring system that continuously records video of mental health patients in their bedrooms amid concerns it allows trauma to resurface in sexually abused women.

Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust (C&I) discontinued use of the Oxevision system after female patients and staff warned that it undermined the care of victims of sexual abuse and assault.

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