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Essex mental health patients waited up to 72 hours for bedroom cameras to be turned off
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A public inquiry has heard that mental health patients in Essex units had to wait up to 72 hours for a clinical team to decide whether bedroom monitoring cameras could be switched off. The Lampard Inquiry examined the use of the Oxevision system by the Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), which has now acknowledged its approach to consent was wrong and changed its policy in May 2025.
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- Mental health patients objecting to cameras in their bedrooms faced waiting up to 72 hours for requests to turn them off to be considered.
- EPUT admitted that consent to use the Oxevision system should not have been implied at admission and required explicit informed consent.
- The Lampard Inquiry is examining the deaths of over 2,000 inpatients in Essex mental health units over 24 years.
- NHS England raised serious patient safety concerns about the Oxevision system with the MHRA in 2021 regarding its usage and manufacturer claims.
- EPUT spent a net total of £4.3m on the Oxevision system between 2020 and 2025.