NHS asked: how are you preventing violence against staff?

Although the number of reported assaults against NHS staff appears to have gone down, this is probably as a result of a failure to report all incidents, Sue Frith, Deputy Head of the NHS Security Management services has said in an interview with Workplace Law Network.

Numbers of physical assaults remain high, with 55,000 attacks on NHS staff reported in the year 2006-7. But, says Frith, data about which members of staff are being attacked is not being collected: "We don't think it's app... (117 more words)

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