{"id":250402,"date":"2025-10-30T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250402\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:13:12","slug":"lampard-inquiry-deeply-worried-about-elderly-mental-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250402\/","title":{"rendered":"Lampard Inquiry deeply worried about elderly mental healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lampard Inquiry has been running for more than a year since it started in September 2024. Its fifth set of hearings – held at Arundel House in London – ran from 13 to 28 October.<\/p>\n

The inquiry heard “grave concerns” about Oxevision<\/a>, which uses sensors and cameras to monitor in-patients while in their bedrooms.<\/p>\n

Campaign group Stop Oxevision said it was a “superficial quick fix for wider systemic issues” and said many patients’ found the technology “intrusive, undignified, dehumanising and traumatising”.<\/p>\n

Oxevsion’s manufacturer said the system played a critical role in preventing patient harm, but agreed that filming a patient 24 hours a day could possibly “constitute a very significant invasion of privacy”.<\/p>\n

Zephan Trent, executive director of strategy, transformation and digital at EPUT, told the inquiry that improvements had been made in staff training<\/a>, and that patient consent for the use of Oxevision was now actively sought.<\/p>\n

The inquiry will hear more evidence from bereaved families when it resumes in February 2026.<\/p>\n

Further sessions in April, July and October 2026 are expected to hear evidence from healthcare staff and corporate witnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lampard Inquiry has been running for more than a year since it started in September 2024. Its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-250402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}