Assaults by patients on medical staff cost €1.5m: IRELAND

Irish medical staff are being assaulted by patients to such an extent that on average, once every three days a staff member has to take weeks off work, costing the taxpayer €1.5m a year. New figures show 124 nurses, doctors and other staff were forced to take sick leave last year due to assaults that

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Care Home Safe Holding: 72-year old woman died after assault by fellow resident

A 72-YEAR-OLD grandmother died 13 days after being attacked at a care home. Maureen Shone, 72, was found by staff on the floor of her bedroom in Trentham, Staffordshire after being brutally assaulted by a male patient. Staff found the attacker near Mrs Shone’s room covered in blood. A metal curtain pole had been used

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Hospital Violence Reduction – Permission to Intervene

Hospital Violence Reduction Personal Factors In some environments, there is sometimes still a question about whether a security officer or a nurse who uses force in a situation could rely on the backing of his/her management, and/or the backing of the hospital, if they intervene with force in a situation and are then challenged legally.

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Accidental Death: “I am just a carer, not a nurse”

A 93 year old woman who was still mobile and independent died following a fall in the Burton Fleming care home where she was a resident. Jessica Wall, affectionately known as ‘J’ to staff and her fellow residents at The Willows, had a history of falls and fell twice in the days before her death,

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Resident left the building: Care Home fined £140,000 and ordered to pay £65,000 costs

Care Home Absconding The owners of a Stamford care home where an elderly woman died have been fined £140,000 and ordered to pay £65,000 costs. Staff at the Whitefriars Care Home in St George’s Avenue failed to notice that pensioner Dorothy Spicer, 84, had gone missing on the evening of November 25, 2009. She was

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