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Hospital broke rules on filming patients, inspectors want answersThursday 23 February 2012 The VU university's teaching hospital broke patient confidentiality rules by allowing a television production company to record patients being treated at its accident and emergency department without their consent, the Dutch medical association KNMG said on Thursday. The guidelines state no-one can be filmed without their consent, and this includes patients who are not in a position to give their consent, the KNMG said. Television show Nieuwsuur reported on Wednesday night the hospital had allowed television production house Eyeworks to install 35 remote-controlled cameras to record activity in the department over a two-week period. Consent In total 1,500 people visited the A&E department while filming was taking place, and some 150 gave permission for Eyeworks to film them. However, some people were filmed without giving their permission. One father told Nieuwsuur he had spent hours in the A&E department with his young daughter and was only told as they were going home everything had been filmed. Eyeworks also filmed confidential conversations between the girl and a doctor, at which the father was not present. He has now submitted a formal complaint against the hospital. Patients' organisations also protested about the VU's participation in the programme, saying MPs should ensure this can never happen again. Health ministry inspectors have also called for an investigation. The show is due to be broadcast in early March on RTL. © DutchNews.nl
Let's be very clear here: this behaviour may be violating guidelines and internal regulations but most of all, it violates the local and european data protection law and it indicates a major disregard for patients' privacy. This is outrageous. By Alice | February 24, 2012 7:36 AM This is OUTRAGEOUS! Bad enough VU emergency room is staffed by students with no experience - But patients are being filmed at their most vulnerable moments for the gain of TV advertisers. DISCRACE. (PS - this is a university hospital) By Janzie | February 24, 2012 10:43 AM PS: By Janzie | February 24, 2012 10:46 AM zenplus: you may find your comments pack a bit more power if you keep them relevant. this has nothing to do with privatized health care, nothing. it is however, as Alice said, in violation of the law. plus it's just common sense that this type of thing is bad for society in general. By Bill | February 24, 2012 1:35 PM What concerns me is that neither Eyeworks nor the VU seem to understand that this will destroy the trust people put in hospitals. Never mind about the material that people cleared for transmission. What happened to the much larger amount of material that was collected and not used. Who had access to that? This makes other discussions about privacy going on in the marketing sector a complete joke when this sort of production is allowed to go on in a teaching hospital. Bonkers! By Jonathan Marks | February 24, 2012 5:06 PM Medical privacy laws here are a sham. They look okay on paper, but they are never followed. I can't tell you how many times medical people speak openly about private medical situations with other people listening, leave prescriptions and referral's in a place for all to read, talk on the phone and use your name in front of others, etc. I was in a shared hospital room when a doctor rudely came in and told the family there was no hope for their family member, and told them they should consider euthanasia. Surely they could have had a private office visit about something so important. It's high time that patients can sue medical staff for these infringements of privacy. By Quest | February 24, 2012 6:08 PM
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This is the normal result to be expected from a private health care system for which business is the main target, instead of health.
By zenplus | February 23, 2012 3:45 PM