I am aghast at a report in the local News today. A psychiatric nurse at a
local hospital had his claim for compensation rejected by Chichester
magistrates. He had been attacked by a psychiatric patient armed with a
knife.
The Chairman of the bench, in rejecting the claim said words to the
effect,"To an extent, this can be predicted and comes with the territory."
The nurse has said that it certainly isn't in his job description!
This surely sends an appalling message to those who may recently have
thought twice about assaulting Health staff. 47% of nurses were attacked
last year in one way or another, apparently. Nursing staff are more likely
to be attacked than any other group of workers (3x more likely than
Police, from memory) and yet we all remember the huge pay rises awarded to
the Police in the late '80s by Thatcher, "in recognition of the danger of
their work."
Ha ha ha.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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In God we trust. All others get a spine board.
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