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Shropshire hospitals ‘among the worst’ for violence against staff
Tuesday 27th September 2011, 11:40AM BST.
Shropshire’s two main hospitals are among the worst in the country for violence against members of staff, a new report from the NHS revealed today.
Nearly 800 incidents were recorded at the Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal hospitals in 20120/11 – 469 of which related to violence and aggression.
And 23 incidents involved intentional physical attacks on staff while they were performing their duties.
The NHS Staff Survey 2010 has placed the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in the worst 20 per cent of hospitals nationally for such incidents.
Bosses at the trust have since taken action and have bolstered security at both sites with an extra security officer at each hospital between 4pm and 4am.
The report says this has led to a decrease in incidents but the trust has received complaints about ‘inadequate’ security provision.
Officials are able to take a number of sanctions against those who are aggressive or violent towards staff.
This has even seen one patient being banned from the hospitals, except in the case of an emergency situation, while another ‘problematic’ patient suffering from a long-term critical condition was placed on a specific behavioural contract which was served on him at his home.
The report says: “It is recognised that security officer numbers and capital investment are important to the effectiveness of any security management strategy, hence the decision to commit to reconsidering further funding for 2012/13.”
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This is outrageous, one attack is one too many.
I hope the Trust is adopting a “zero tolerance” policy and the aggressors are ejected from the hospitals as soon as possible.
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Bit confused by these figures. Nearly 800 incidents, 469 of them violent of which 23 were intentional. So that means 446 were unintentional. Puts a different complexion on things, I think!
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Eh?? Let’s look at these pretty numbers again children.
800 incidents of “violence against members of staff”.
Of these, 469 “related to violence and aggression.”
Now you’ve lost me. What were the other 331 “incidents of violence” related to if not “violence and aggression” ??
Glossing over that bit of tosh, “23 incidents involved intentional physical attacks on staff”, leaving 308 incidents of “violence against members of staff” which were either unintentional (yeah right) or not related to “violence and aggression”.
What a random and contradictory set of statistics.
Well done the NHS Staff Survey 2010 (at some cost to the taxpayer presumably), and well done the Shropshire Star for blithely publishing these meaningless figures.
As Nick said, a different complexion.
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