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).
Clinical Photography takes place in our studios, on our wards and clinics, and in our operating theatres. Our studios are located at the following hospital sites:
- Bishop Auckland Hospital
- Darlington Memorial Hospital
- 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.
- Bishop Auckland Hospital
Telephone: 01388 455129
Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm
- Darlington Memorial Hospital
Telephone: 01325 743093
Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm
- University Hospital of North Durham
Telephone: 0191 333 2210
Monday to Friday, from 8.30am to 4:30pm