AIBU 24 hours in a&e ( show )

[Helpmeimafish01]

so of work due to flu and I’m laying in bed watching more tv than I have in a decade in 48 hours 🤣
was watching some clips of 24 hours in a&e and I can’t work out how they are allowed to film some of these cases.
one I just watched young women punched in the face serious injuries. Unconscious / not able to take and unidentified at first.

now I know they would see permission before airing it on tv but isn’t filming it without permission a bit off ?? Like even if you don’t agree to be aired there’s still a tape which more than the medical team have witnessed of you being suctioned : treated/ intubated etc

how is this allowed in the whole confidentiality / data protection side of things. I don’t think I would be happy

YANBU

Maybe I'm missing something, I hope I am. But yes, even making a video recording of someone who isn't able to consent feels really unethical to me, and potentially illegal? You have an expectation of privacy in a hospital, in a private room.

In my job working with patients we have to seek consent BEFORE recording anyone, have to make it clear they can ask for the recording to be ended and deleted at any time, and are told where the recording will go, who will see it, how and when it'll be destroyed.

I feel like it must be legal what they do to be able to happen, but how?

I've wondered this too

My surgery has some student doctors with them. I had to sign a form because I was seeing a student doctor and they needed my permission to record.

It's horrendous and hospitals shouldn't allow it.

I was involved with Garden productions that made the original series at Kings & then made a one off series filmed at maudsley mental health hospital called 'Bedlam' I was shocked at how little control the patients had over the process.

Bedlam was made in a very different way & did not air until over a year after filming. All patients gave consent & were discharged from section before it was aired. Alot was filmed that could not be aired. That's how it should be. The company never came back but continued to make 24 hours in A&E as the turn around is so quick. No clue if it is still produced by the same company but I was horrified at the time & never watched it since. I would say to anyone to never watch it due to the way it's produced.