Violent patients face ban as east London NHS staff wear bodycams to combat rise in assaults
by Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Feb 26, 2024
2 minutes
An east London hospitals trust is introducing new rules that will make it easier to ban abusive patients from using its services.
The move by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHR Hospitals) comes as violence against its staff has more than doubled in three years.
The shocking rise has seen staff subjected to threats against their lives, and
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