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| A hospital worker has been suspended amid reports that photos of patients having operations were posted on the social networking site Facebook. | A hospital worker has been suspended amid reports that photos of patients having operations were posted on the social networking site Facebook. |
| Patients were not thought to be identifiable in the images which were taken at a hospital in Glasgow, according to the Daily Record. | Patients were not thought to be identifiable in the images which were taken at a hospital in Glasgow, according to the Daily Record. |
| Other staff were said to be unaware that the pictures were being taken. | Other staff were said to be unaware that the pictures were being taken. |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it was conducting an internal investigation into the matter. | NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it was conducting an internal investigation into the matter. |
| Margaret Watt, chair of Scotland Patients' Association, said it was "totally unacceptable" and a breach of a patients' human rights. | |
| "The health board have taken the appropriate action by suspending the person," she said. | |
| "But I would like to think that there is some kind of law where the police are able to take some action against these people. | |
| "Because this was a breach of the patient's human rights and their privacy." | |
| She said mobile phone photography should be banned in hospitals. |