Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients

April 2011

New supplementary guidance for doctors, Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients came into effect on 9 May 2011.

It provides more detailed guidance on how the principles in Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together and in Confidentiality apply where doctors make recordings of patients for a variety of purposes. This might include, for example:

• recordings made as part of a patient’s care
• for teaching, training, or assessment of health professionals and students
• research and development
• recordings for use in widely accessible public media, such as on the internet or broadcast on radio or television.

Using the online version of the guidance

• To read the guidance as it appears in the print version, you can use the navigation arrows at the bottom of the page. Begin reading.
• For an overview of Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients you can use the contents page.