{"id":70740,"date":"2025-01-19T16:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70740"},"modified":"2025-01-19T16:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T16:35:58","slug":"violent-patients-cost-nhs-31million-in-payouts-to-assaulted-staff-as-lawyers-bills-double-charge-to-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/19\/violent-patients-cost-nhs-31million-in-payouts-to-assaulted-staff-as-lawyers-bills-double-charge-to-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent patients cost NHS \u00a331million in payouts to assaulted staff &#8211; as lawyers&#8217; bills double charge to taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk\/incoming\/article6110675.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200\/2994483.jpg\" alt=\"How to Identify a Potentially Violent Patient in Healthcare Settings ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-87235430-d672-11ef-a038-81cf30a0afd9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">NHS<\/a><\/span> is having to pay out around \u00a3165,000 a week in compensation to staff members who are assaulted by violent patients.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14302007\/Violent-patients-cost-NHS-payouts.html\">\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; The\u00a0NHS is having to pay out around \u00a3165,000 a week in compensation to staff members who are assaulted by violent patients.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Violent-patient.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70742,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70740\/revisions\/70742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}