Clampdown on violence against NHS staff

[Northerner]

New measures to protect NHS staff are to be introduced to try to reduce the thousands of assaults on them that take place every year.

Staff are to be given better training in dealing with violent situations and offenders will be prosecuted more quickly.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details later.

He says the NHS will adopt a "zero tolerance" approach to violence against its staff.

A bill to double the sentence for assaults on emergency workers from six months to a year is shortly expected to become law too.

The NHS Violence Reduction Strategy expands on work previously carried out by a body that was scrapped by government more than a year ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46029884

 

[Sally W]

New measures to protect NHS staff are to be introduced to try to reduce the thousands of assaults on them that take place every year.

Staff are to be given better training in dealing with violent situations and offenders will be prosecuted more quickly.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details later.

He says the NHS will adopt a "zero tolerance" approach to violence against its staff.

A bill to double the sentence for assaults on emergency workers from six months to a year is shortly expected to become law too.

The NHS Violence Reduction Strategy expands on work previously carried out by a body that was scrapped by government more than a year ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46029884

It makes me so angry that paramedics are attacked so frequently. This behaviour is unacceptable to anyone and yet to people who are turning out to save lives it seems particularly cruel.

 

[mikeyB]

And now there’s a swell of opinion that some folk who attack care workers should be banned from the NHS. The Royal Blackburn Hospital is banning repeat offenders.

That’s repeat offenders, not zero tolerance. And if they came in with a knife sticking in their head, they would be treated anyway.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Boggles the mind, but seems like a problem in lots of places, including here in Ozstralia.

 

[Ralph-YK]

I was thinking I've not seen anything happen in A&E/hospital or at GPs. Then I wondered how much of this is when staff are out and about. Ambulance staff, responders, care workers and others who do home visits.

And now there’s a swell of opinion that some folk who attack care workers should be banned from the NHS. The Royal Blackburn Hospital is banning repeat offenders.

I don't like the idea of banning people from health care access. There comes a point where you're justified in doing it though.

It makes me so angry that paramedics are attacked so frequently. This behaviour is unacceptable to anyone and yet to people who are turning out to save lives it seems particularly cruel.

We've had a couple of threads about this sort of thing before. It happens in the streets. And I'm guessing in people homes too.
We've to remember it's not always someplace where's there's back up (If there is any in hospitals, where the staff are so busy?)

As a new heart patient, I had a specialist nurse and a physio visit me at home. And I had a district nurse visit a couple of times for something else.
Back in the 80s, when my dad had cancer, we had several visits from a nurse.
All these, (apart from one visit), it was one HCP, on their own.

Far too easy for something to happen.

 

[grovesy]

I was thinking I've not seen anything happen in A&E/hospital or at GPs. Then I wondered how much of this is when staff are out and about. Ambulance staff, responders, care workers and others who do home visits.


I don't like the idea of banning people from health care access. There comes a point where you're justified in doing it though.

We've had a couple of threads about this sort of thing before. It happens in the streets. And I'm guessing in people homes too.
We've to remember it's not always someplace where's there's back up (If there is any in hospitals, where the staff are so busy?)

As a new heart patient, I had a specialist nurse and a physio visit me at home. And I had a district nurse visit a couple of times for something else.
Back in the 80s, when my dad had cancer, we had several visits from a nurse.
All these, (apart from one visit), it was one HCP, on their own.

Far too easy for something to happen.

It does happen in hospitals too! There was a nurse on BBC Breakfast this morning.

 

[Amigo]

Violence against staff is a significant problem in A&E Depts. Many now have security guards to keep the drunks in check.

 

[Ralph-YK]

It does happen in hospitals too! There was a nurse on BBC Breakfast this morning.

I was trying to say that hospitals/A&E was my first thought, and was remembering medical staff can be out and about as well. I'm sure it must happen in hospitals too.
Is there going to be a change in home visits etc? Or is it directed just at hospitals?