The importance of lone worker protection in the healthcare sector has been reinforced by the latest NHS security figures, which reveal a shocking 5.8% rise in physical assaults against health service staff in the past year.
In figures collated from NHS Trusts across the UK, reported physical assaults against NHS staff in England for the year 2012-3 were shown to have risen by 5.8 per cent – from 59,744 in 2011-12 to 63,199 in 2012-13.
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