Home Office refuses to enforce privacy code on NHS staff using video

Surveillance camera commissioner’s advice that trusts be required to comply with code to protect patients is rejectedThe government has rejected a request by the surveillance camera watchdog to allow it to monitor the increasing and unregulated use of CCTV and body-worn video cameras in hospitals.The body cameras, which record sound as well as images, are being increasingly deployed in hospitals in an effort to tackle abuse of frontline health service staff. Related: Thousands of Metropoli