Principles
This guidance is based on the following ethical and professional principles:
If you make, store, access, use or share recordings, you should at all times:
- Acknowledge that patients' interests and rights are paramount Read more
- Respect patients' privacy and dignity
- Ensure there is appropriate current patient consent for any new recordings
- Only access, store, use or share recordings with appropriate patient consent, or anonymise recordings before use
- Respect the rights to privacy and dignity of other people who are included in the recordings, such as family members and health care workers Read more
- Respect the rights of those who own the recordings and any intellectual property rights associated with those recordings, and check and comply with the licences for use Read more
- Take professional responsibility for your making, use and sharing of recordings and alert colleagues to their own legal and ethical responsibilities where appropriate Read more
- Wherever possible, make use of existing recordings for which there is appropriate consent
