“Would you want to be filmed 24/7 in your room while you’re ill in hospital?” The NHS has rolled out a controversial spy camera technology across approximately half of all mental health trusts that provide inpatient services in England. Oxevision is billed as a tool for remotely monitoring patient wellbeing – but does it actually make people less safe? The technology has been linked to at least four inpatient deaths, and patients aren’t always asked for consent or even aware that they’re being recorded, Harriet Williamson explains.

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