Monitoring System or Cameras in Hospital Bedrooms
To whom it may concern,
Under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act, I am writing to you to solicit the following information concerning the monitoring system in hospital bedrooms:
1. Have cameras, surveillance equipments or Oxehealth or Oxevision devices or any monitoring systems been installed in patients' bedrooms including seclusion rooms in the hospital(s)?
If the response to the aforementioned question is affirmative,
2. Please specify the hospitals 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 or Scottish Information Commissioner, as well as the legal litigations. I look forward to your prompt response.
Yours faithfully,
Henrietta MacGregor
Dear Ms MacGregor,
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Thank you for your email dated 28 May 2024, requesting information
regarding monitoring systems. We have recorded this request and are
currently processing it in accordance with the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002.
A response to your request for information is due by 25 June 2024. Please
allow for delivery time.
We will contact you again in due course.
Best wishes,
Susie Nattrass
Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Team
NHS Grampian
Rosehill House
Cornhill Road
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZG
Phone: 01224 554983
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Dear Ms MacGregor
Please find attached response to your request.
Regards
Chris
Chris Morrice
Senior Information Governance Officer
NHS Grampian
Rosehill House
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AB25 2ZG
Email: [email address]
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