Danny Kinahan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Danny Kinahan on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many verbal and physical assaults on NHS staff have been recorded in the last three years.

Ben Gummer

Information on the number of verbal assaults on National Health Service staff is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

NHS Protect collates figures annually on reported physical assaults on NHS staff in England.

The table below shows the number of reported physical assaults in the last three years:

Reported physical assaults against NHS staff

Detailed tables of information on the number of physical assaults since 2004-05, as reported by each health body, is at:

http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/3645.aspx

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