Stop Oxevision

[Visual description: Hat stands outside Arundel house, a fancy looking building in central London where The current Lampard Inquiry hearings are being held]

[Note: entirely for reasons of managing Hat’s health / overload over the last few days, this statement was pre recorded on 12th October prior to the inquiry hearings]

The Lampard Inquiry is tasked with the immense challenge of investigating matters surrounding a scandal that is very much ongoing. A scandal that extends well beyond the Inquiry’s scope. And a scandal that tragically continues to unfold ahead of us.

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is just one of around 50 mental health trusts in England alone. Whilst the provision of mental health services within Essex has been, and continues to be, particularly egregious, this remains more indicative of the standards across the country rather than an exception to the rule. 

We, Stop Oxevision, are grateful for the time and consideration the Lampard Inquiry has given to addressing matters related to Oxevision over the last two days and the months before that. We will continue to work with the Inquiry as witnesses to support where we can, our own health permitting. 

However, it is important, in this moment, to highlight the urgency of these matters. We simply can not afford to wait years for the Lampard Inquiry’s final report and recommendations. Action is needed now more than ever.  

The way EPUT have used Oxevision for the last five years, which EPUT themselves have now admitted had breached patient’s rights, is very much in line with the ways in which this is implemented in other mental health trusts. Currently we are aware of approximately 25 mental health trusts in England using Oxevision. The company Oxehealth or LIO Health have expanded to Sweden, the US and Australia and as we speak are heading to Northern Ireland to sell their service to NHS trusts there.  

We share pain, anger and grief with those who are only finding out today about the extent of what the box in their bedroom ceiling was doing, that video footage that was generated of them or their loved ones, and that this was shared with a private company without their knowledge or consent – often actively deceived otherwise. 

As Stop Oxevision, we repeat our initial demands and call for all trusts using Oxevision to immediately suspend their use of it. Oxevision is fundamentally incompatible with safe, lawful, trauma informed or person-centred care, and this continues to be proven to be the case. 

NHS England and CQC have commissioned research and issued guidelines but none of this has been enough to address the root issues. Ultimately, replacing in person treatment of acutely unwell people with CCTV; putting video cameras in patients bedrooms; and sharing over 90 million hours of potentially identifiable video footage with third parties is unacceptable and abhorrent. 

We don’t need more research. We don’t need more empty, convoluted words that try to be balanced and neutral when it’s our lives, rights and dignity that hang in the balance. We need real action, and we need the institutions charged with protecting us to finally take responsibility in taking this action. I am angry, I am furious that we have to go to such extreme lengths to get these institutions to see that human lives matter more than the financial interests and reputations of private tech companies. And we shouldn’t have to beg for our most fundamental human rights to be upheld. And it shouldn’t take lives lost and harm inflicted for those with power to finally take action. 

In order for mental health trusts to stop using Oxevision, it will be necessary for Oxehealth to permit them to exit the contracts they have tied themselves into. The contracts that commit them to syphoning more and more public funds into paying for dangerous and unlawful technology for years to come. 

Given Oxehealth’s self-proclaimed commitments to patient safety, wellbeing, and working with patients at every stage, we hope they will see that this is the right thing to do. We, as patients and ex-patients, are calling on Oxehealth to prioritise our lives over profit. 

In my oral evidence heard over Monday and Tuesday, I highlighted a complaint submitted to the information commissioners office. This complaint was rejected on the basis that I should have first raised the complaint with Oxehealth. This has now been raised with them, albeit in the context of a Statutory Public Inquiry. Therefore, in the context of the extent and magnitude of the concerns discussed, we implore the ICO to reopen this complaint and investigate potential data protection infringements in cooperation with The Lampard Inquiry. 

Finally and most importantly, we would like to offer our sincerest condolences to all the bereaved loved ones and patients who have been harmed at the hands of mental health services in Essex and across the country. No words will ever be enough to express the depth of the catastrophic betrayal and failure you have experienced and we are grateful for the tireless work on advocating for and bringing about the inquiry we hear today. Vital work you should never have had to do. We share fragile hope that this will result in the changes so desperately needed. 

We stand in solidarity, grief and rage and will not stop fighting until patients and their loved ones across the country receive the standard of care we deserve. 

I will end this by reading a list of the trusts we believe to be using Oxevision currently who we invite to take immediate action to address this and the threats it poses. 

• Active Care Group (private; previously called Huntercombe) 
• Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

• Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
• Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
• Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
• Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
• Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Devon Partnership NHS Trust (currently expanding to more wards)
• East London NHS Foundation Trust
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (previously Southern Health, Solent and some services from Isle of Wight and Sussex Partnership) 

• Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
• Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
• Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
• North East London NHS Foundation Trust
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
• Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

• Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
• West London NHS Trust

This list excludes the private providers, Live Well South West community Interest Company  and services such as secure children’s homes, detention facilities and care homes which are all contracted to private providers who refuse to disclose information making it even harder to piece together how camera surveillance systems are used.

Thank you once again to the Lampard Inquiry for its work investigating these issues and we await their vital recommendations. 

Surveillance is not safety. 

[Edit 20/02/2026: please see our post here for an updated list of NHS Trusts using Oxevision as a number of these have now ended their use of their technology since this statement was recorded.]