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Patients waited 72 hours for cameras to be turned off14 hours agoNikki FoxEast of England health correspondentLampard Inquiry/LIO HealthImages taken from the Oxevision cameras were shown to the inquiry. The blue dot indicates where the infrared monitoring was being aimedMental health patients who objected to cameras monitoring them in their bedrooms had to wait for a clinical team to decide whether they could be switched off, a public inquiry has heard. The Oxevision system was automatically running when patients were admitted to certain wards run by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and requests to turn it off could take up to 72 hours to consider. EPUT acknowledged its approach to consent was wrong, introducing an opt-in policy in August 2026. The Lampard Inquiry is examining the deaths of more than 2,000 people who were inpatients in mental health units in Essex in the 24 years to the end of 2023. Zephan Trent, the trust's executive director of strategy, transformation and digital, said: "Consent to use of the Oxevision system should not have been implied at admission, and should have been explicit informed consent.
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