Western Europe English nurses to be given body-worn cameras in a crackdown on hospital sexual assaults

[The Gays From LA]

Are English patients this degenerate and criminal and they can't keep their hands off the nurses while at the hospital?

Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, is believed to be keen on giving healthcare workers cameras similar to those worn by paramedics and police officers in an effort to combat high levels of rape and sexual assault in hospitals.

The Department for Health and Social Care is understood to be working with NHS England on the plans, which also include other initiatives such as an AI data processor to improve prosecution rates and a national violence prevention hub.

NHS leaders met with the Health Secretary on Friday to discuss abuse in hospitals and how best to tackle it, after it emerged last week that there had been more than 6,500 reports of rape and sexual assault in hospital settings since 2019.

Freedom of Information requests from the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) also found just 256 (four per cent) resulted in a charge or summons being brought.
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A recent trial of body cameras at a hospital in Oxford revealed that they were better received by staff than anticipated and provided feelings of reassurance.

Unions are thought to be receptive to the idea of body-worn cameras for healthcare workers, despite some privacy concerns, after largely positive reactions from members who are increasingly prioritising better working conditions and improved safety measures.

Other suggestions discussed in the NHS England and DHSC meeting included the establishment of a national violence prevention hub and an artificial intelligence-based system to improve data.

It is hoped that AI could improve the reporting of sexual assaults, while algorithms may also be able to provide insights on trends.

It could also be deployed to better integrate healthcare systems and staff complaints with police databases to boost prosecution rates.

Nurses to wear body cameras in crackdown on hospital sexual assaults

Nurses are set to be given body-worn cameras in a crackdown on hospital sexual assaults under government plans.

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[Firegirl26]

Wait, are the patient sexually assaulting the staff or are the staff sexually assaulting the patients. Every once in a while in America, you hear a coma patient ,miraculously getting pregnant when they had no sexual relations for like 10 years and it turns out one of the staff was doing it. I know sometimes assaults happen in elderly homes.

 

[Nektar Geist]

Considering the report into sexual assault in the NHS was buried (along with the CPS and police knowingly prosecuting innocent men for rape), very much doubt this is about "poor dear nurses" and more about the drugs they nick (I know nurses).

 

[The Gays From LA]

Wait, are the patient sexually assaulting the staff or are the staff sexually assaulting the patients.

Good question. I would assume that nurses who are themselves abusing patients would be reluctant to wear a bodycam, lest they get caught. So the question is, is the wearing of a bodycam a daily requirement, or are nurses free to wear a camera whenever they want to or feel it's necessary?