Body cameras for mental health nurses

Physical assaults on NHS staff rose 9.7per cent in 2016-17 compared to the previous year. In Northamptonshire, more than 60 mental health nurses at NHS Berrywood Hospital trialled body cameras, which more than halved the number of emergency restraints on patients in an 18-month period. Now there are plans for it to be rolled out more widely and the nurse who came up with the idea, Lindsay Bennett,

right, has been put forward for an RCNI Nurse Award.