NHS: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 18th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many healthcare staff have been physically attacked or assaulted at (a) University Hospital Coventry and (b) other healthcare provider settings in Coventry.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 23rd January 2018

In 2015/16, the number of staff physically attacked or assaulted at:

- University Hospital Coventry was 194 involving medical factors1 and 59 not involving medical factors; and

- In other healthcare provider settings in Coventry2, the number was 3,355 involving medical factors and 277 not involving medical factors.

Employers from across the National Health Service will collect data on physical assaults, and working alongside local police are responsible for protecting their staff. The Department is working with NHS England and NHS Improvement on new arrangements to support NHS and primary care employers to “…take vigorous and immediate action against those who abuse or attack the people who work for and make our NHS”.

Notes:

1Assaults involving medical factors are the number of physical assaults where the perpetrator did not know what they were doing, or did not know what they were doing was wrong due to medical illness, mental ill health, severe learning disability or treatment administered.

2The data, extracted from NHS Protect’s “Reported Physical Assaults data for 2015/16 for healthcare settings in Coventry includes University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and West Midlands Ambulance Trust. Some of the trusts geographical areas cover more than just Coventry.

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