About our service
Our Clinical Photography team take photographs to record patients' clinical conditions. Requests for clinical photography are made by clinicians from several different specialties within the healthcare setting. The photographs are uploaded to a confidential electronic patient record and may be used to aid diagnosis, to help monitor the development of a clinical condition, for referral purposes, or for planning further treatment. Clinicians may also wish to use patient photographs for clinical teaching or publication but this will only be done with a patient’s explicit consent.
Our clinical photographers all work to national standards set by the Institute of Medical Illustrators, and qualified staff may register on the Academy for Healthcare Science Accredited Register (as endorsed by the Professional Standards Authority).
How to access our services
Clinical Photography takes place in our studios, on our wards and clinics, and in our operating theatres. Our studios are located at Bishop Auckland Hospital, Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham.
If you have been given a Clinical Photography request form by your clinician and would like to make an appointment, please contact the department location that you would like to attend.
The Clinical Photography department is sometimes referred to as the Medical Photography and Illustration Department - signage around our hospitals may still direct you to the Medical Photography department.