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Queensland Health to trial voice-activated duress alarms and body cameras

14 July 2016
By Kate McDonald

Queensland Health will accelerate trials of voice-activated duress alarms and body cameras as part of a range of measures to help tackle violence against health workers.

The new suite of measures is in response to a report by a Queensland Health occupational violence taskforce completed in May, which urged that occupational violence needed to be recognised as a clinical issue in the same way as patient care is.

The taskforce also recommended that Queensland Health look at adding details of previous aggressive behaviour and the causes of that behaviour to the integrated electronic medical record (ieMR) that is being rolled out.

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