Rowley wrote:
>>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.
I'm too poor to afford even free local news papers, so can you tell me
please: was the nurse claiming compensation against the Trust or the
patient?
If from the patient, then is that fair if he/she was out of their tree
(medical phrase) at the time? The patient is probably as poor as I am
anyway and couldn't pay.
If from the Trust (for endangering an employee etc.) then the nurse in
quesion should be rightly agrieved, especially in view of the recent
massive (several hundred thousand pounds) awarded to a junior doc for
receiving a needle stick injury at work (the doc in question didn't even
need to contract a nasty disease for this sum of money if my memory
serves correctly). I think the damages (awarded against the Trust) were
justified by citing the psychological stress of worrying about what
might have been contracted, preventing her working again. Good luck to
her (I'm off to jab my finger with a clean needle), but the two cases
seem a little at odds.
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