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There is no “strong independent evidence” that a monitoring system used widely in mental health wards has improved patient safety, an inquiry has heard.<\/p>\n

The Lampard Inquiry is examining the deaths of more than 2,000 mental health patients in Essex over a 24-year period.<\/p>\n

The inquiry had previously heard “grave concerns” expressed about the widespread use of Oxevision technology<\/a>, which monitors patients in their rooms using infrared sensors and cameras.<\/p>\n

LIO Health, which runs Oxevision, recently said: “Technology has a vital role to play in supporting safer inpatient mental health care, an area without any medical device technology until Oxevision.”<\/p>\n

It added its impact had been “significant”.<\/p>\n

“In one trust alone, the technology has helped staff in responding to 1,453 safety incidents over a four-year period,” LIO Health said.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the inquiry heard from two experts from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n

They had reviewed 45 studies that were used to justify introducing Oxevision across the NHS.<\/p>\n

The academics found some of the studies involved employees of Oxevision or were not extensive enough.<\/p>\n

They concluded the studies did “not provide strong independent evidence of improved patient safety, acceptability or cost effectiveness”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no “strong independent evidence” that a monitoring system used widely in mental health wards has improved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-822607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822607","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=822607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}