More ED staff are wearing body cameras for safety. Are they working?

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By Daniel Pye

In response to a surge in abuse directed at medical staff, more trusts are using body cameras in emergency departments and mental health wards. Doctors.net.uk examines what that means for doctors and patients – and for tackling the underlying causes of violence.

It was after a patient pulled a knife in the emergency department at Manchester Royal Hospital that Dr Daniel Kristiansen decided to start wearing a body camera.