Accident and Emergency Departments: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 14th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies on NHS staff retention of findings by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in its report entitled Safe to Care, published on 7 September 2026, showing that 73 per cent of A&E staff experience or witness violence or aggression on a daily or weekly basis.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 12th October 2026

I refer the Hon. Member to the answers provided on 15 September in response to Questions 27894 and 27895 and on 19 June in response to Question 3468.

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