{"id":139806,"date":"2025-11-18T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139806\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:50:07","slug":"londonderry-hospitals-body-worn-camera-trial-after-staff-abuse-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139806\/","title":{"rendered":"Londonderry hospitals: Body-worn camera trial after staff abuse spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Body-worn cameras are being trialled at two Londonderry hospitals following an increase in assaults on staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Western Health and Social Care Trust said the three-month trial at Altnagelvin Hospital&#8217;s emergency department and Grangewood&#8217;s mental health unit would increase staff, patient and public safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cameras, which nursing, medical and clerical staff began wearing at the start of November, are only activated during incidents of abuse, violence, aggression or when there is a security risk, the trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Incidents of staff being physically or verbally abused, the trust added, has increased by 27% over the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body-worn cameras are being trialled at two Londonderry hospitals following an increase in assaults on staff. The Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-139806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}