NHS: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 28th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2018 to Question 131162 on Sexual Offences: Essex, what progress his Department and NHS England have made on the establishment of a new data collection for violence against and abuse of NHS staff; and what consultation has been carried out with NHS trade unions as part of that process.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 4th April 2019

A proposed new data collection for violence against and abuse of National Health Service staff will be implemented as part of the work led by NHS Improvement and NHS England to deliver the NHS Violence Reduction Strategy.

The Strategy which was commissioned by the Department and announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 31 October 2018 has been developed in partnership with employers, staff and unions across the NHS.

It has been scrutinised by the NHS Social Partnership Forum which is chaired by Ministers and brings together NHS Employers, NHS Trade Unions, NHS England, Health Education England, NHS Improvement and the Department to discuss and debate the development and implementation of the workforce implications of policy.

Plans for the new data collection are expected to be included in the interim Workforce Implementation Plan due to be published in April utilising some of the “up to £2m per annum” announced in the NHS Long Term Plan to tackle violence against and bullying of staff.

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