At least once a week A&E staff suffer violence and aggression at work prompting a call for action
A&E heroes under attack with workers kicked in the face and racially abused
At least once a week A&E staff suffer violence and aggression at work prompting a call for action
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Lucy Thornton News Reporter
00:00, 07 Sep 2026Updated 08:02, 07 Sep 2026
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) warned the crisis has become 'normalised' and is being fuelled by long waits for…
Survey finds long waiting times and overcrowding have made abuse ‘routine’ part of working on hospital frontline
A new survey has highlighted the abuse that staff face on a daily basis
Middle-class patients and their families are among those driven to rage by long waits and dehumanising care in corridors, the…
The horrifying violence faced by NHS staff is laid bare by an A&E sister who has seen her colleague get a broken jaw and nurses…
A senior A&E nurse said she has seen colleagues punched, kicked and even had a gun pointed at them
A&E staff face daily violence and abuse from patients, survey reveals
