Monitoring System or Cameras in Hospital Bedrooms
To whom it may concern,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am writing to you to solicit the following information concerning the monitoring system in hospital bedrooms:
1. Have cameras or surveillance equipments been installed in patients' bedrooms in the hospital(s)?
If the response to the aforementioned question is affirmative,
2. Please specify the hospital(s) which have the monitoring system and cameras in patients' bedrooms.
3. What is the duration for which the footage captured by the bedroom cameras is stored? At what point is the footage scheduled for deletion?
4. Has there been any occurrence of unauthorised access to or release of camera footage? Or has there been any accidental leakage?
5. Have patients formally requested the deletion of camera footage relating to them? If so, have their requests been acted upon?
6. Does the camera footage encompass the recording of all potential activities conducted by patients in hospital bedrooms, including but not limited to intimate or genital exercise or automanipulation?
7. What measures have been implemented to protect the privacy and dignity of patients, and to prevent any possible leakage of recorded footage?
8. Do you have a plan to remove cameras from patients' bedrooms?
Please be advised that you are legally obligated to respond to my enquiries within 20 days. Failure to provide the true and complete information may result in a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office, as well as the legal litigations. I look forward to your prompt response.
Yours faithfully,
Henrietta MacGregor
Dear Sir / Madam
Please accept this as acknowledgement of receipt of your request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We are processing your request which is due to you within 20 working days
in accordance with the deadline stipulated by the Act.
Kind Regards
Lisa Wilkinson
Corporate Governance Manager / Assistant Trust Board Secretary
Dear Henrietta
Please find attached response to your FOI request.
Kind regards,
FOI Team
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Lawton House
Bellringer Road
Trentham Lakes South
Trentham
Stoke On Trent
ST4 8HH
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H MacGregor left an annotation ()
Cameras or surveillance equipments have been installed in hospital bedrooms under the management of the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. The specific patients' bedrooms in question are in the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Ward 6 at Harplands Hospital.