<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cb6d59a2-eb5f-4493-b905-7c39a8bf5bf3/1DE8396C-8975-4713-870C-83E92F7BB8BD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html" href="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">soloprotect.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><H1>Healthcare Sector</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><H4 align="left" class="MsoNormal">More than 58,000 physical assaults reported in 2005/2006*</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><P align="left" class="MsoNormal">Just over a quarter of UK nurses have been physically assaulted at some stage in their career.  For the approximately 200,000 healthcare professionals that work in the community, the risk of pohysical violence and verbal abuse is proportionally higher still.  Latest figures published by the NHS CFSMS show in excess of 58,000 physical assaults were reported in 2005/2006.*</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><P align="left" class="MsoNormal">Violent abuse against healthcare workers in on the increase. In 2002/3, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) experienced an unprecedented number of attacks against its staff. These included:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>116,000</B> reported attacks (both verbal and serious physical assaults)</DIV> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>37%</B> of abuse by patients or colleagues</DIV> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>14%</B> of staff suffered a physical attack</DIV> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>36%</B> subsequestly suffered from work-related stress</DIV></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://soloprotect.com/section/15/index.html"><P class="MsoNormal">In addition, <B>80%</B> of nursing staff in mental health units experienced violent or threatening behaviour.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1DE8396C-8975-4713-870C-83E92F7BB8BD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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