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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
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