By Jessica Green For Mailonline
Published: 19:48 BST, 10 April 2019 | Updated: 01:48 BST, 11 April 2019
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A television company that unlawfully filmed patients at a maternity clinic for a Channel 4 programme on stillbirths has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
London-based True Visions Productions (TVP) set up CCTV-style cameras and microphones in examination rooms at the walk-in centre at Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge.
The company had been given permission to film by the city's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
But an investigation found that TVP failed to adequately inform patients, who were attending over pregnancy concerns, before they were filmed.
London-based True Visions Productions (TVP) set up CCTV-style cameras and microphones in examination rooms at the walk-in centre at Addenbrooke's Hospital (pictured), in Cambridge
Steve Eckersley, ICO director of investigations, said: 'Patients would not have expected to have been filmed in this situation, and many will have been very distressed when they learned such a private and potentially traumatic moment had been recorded.
'The recorded footage would have included the sensitive personal data of patients who could already be suffering anxiety and stress.
'We recognise the public
